Projects

How to make a  handy little wallet for all you sewing bits and bobs. 

This is the project from the June 2019 Sew Darn Sweet Box These useful items can be made from small pieces of fabric and they're very useful too, you might even want to give them as part of a secret Santa! The fabric I used in this project is Cocktail Party from Lewis & Irene Lanyard You will need a strip of fabric 5cm wide and about 100cm long to start with, and a lanyard clip. I found it best to rotary cut the fabric to get the edges straight and even. Press the fabric strip in half along the...

  In this post I'm going to show you how I made a string of nautical bunting using Makower's pre-printed panel from the Seaview collection, although this method will work with most of Makower's panels. You can also follow the steps to make bunting using your own triangle template.  You will need printed panel 3 fat quarters or 75 x 112cm  of fabric cardboard for template 4m of bias binding thread pins and scissors   First of all cut out all 16 of the printed triangles along the outer edge of the white printed seam allowance You can use the...