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Out & About, UncategorizedMay 14, 2018

London Craft Week 2018: Our Highlights

By Amanda

Our regular craft correspondent Julia Little toured London Craft Week for us again this year, searching out the best of the HUGE selection of what was on offer. It was the thoughtful presentations and workshops put on by the smaller… Read More

Fashion & BeautyJanuary 31, 2018

The Maker’s Atelier, Sewing With Style

By Amanda

Having rediscovered my love for sewing last year, I was thrilled when one of our TWR readers tipped me off about The Maker’s Atelier, a new magazine for sewers that promised to be stylish. I don’t know what it is… Read More

Home & GardenSeptember 21, 2017

Crazy Things You Do When You’re Pregnant

By Amanda

I am now a solid nine months into my Buy Nothing year and I thought you’d like to know how I was getting on. People keep asking me how I’m doing, perching their heads to one side as you do… Read More

Art & Culture, Out & AboutJune 7, 2017

Art, Style and Sewing at the Venice Biennale 2017

By Amanda

When I’ve been to the Venice Biennale in previous years, I’ve always observed a glamorous mix of both art and style. This year, not so much on the style front. The art was as thought provoking as always but I… Read More

Middle Aged MumMay 10, 2017

Middleagedmum.com: Mild Angst About What I Should Have Done…

By Amanda

Not buying (or distracting myself so much with) clothes for a year is having a strange affect on my thinking. As I do less clothes shopping and more of the other things I enjoy, I find myself thinking about what… Read More

Out & AboutApril 8, 2016

Guest Blog: Elena Bowes visits Tender Buttons

By Amanda

Guest blogger Elena Bowes went to New York’s Tender Buttons for us this month, I have never been in all the years I’ve been visiting NYC, but next visit, I’m heading straight over……If you’re visiting The Big Apple this year,… Read More

Fashion & BeautyApril 9, 2015

Merchant & Mills collabs with Uniqlo

By Amanda

I don’t know HOW I missed this collab between Uniqlo’s UT collection and our favourite haberdashery store Merchant & Mills. I can only apologies for being so slow, it’s been out for a month or two and quite a few… Read More

Out & AboutFebruary 10, 2015

Heal’s Modern Craft Market: things to do in February

By Amanda

Today’s post is by our regular contributor Julia Little, who takes a break from digital and does a bit of crafting for us….. I’m not going to apologise, I love a bit of craft. In the past it has had… Read More

Out & AboutNovember 14, 2014

Mr Finch’s Cinder Embers exhibition, at Anthropologie

By Amanda

Mr Finch is an unusual chap. He started life as a jeweller, then moved into being a textile artist because he wasn’t really enjoying it that much. Hailing from Yorkshire and with a jolly demeanour, he is a dapper dresser… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingOctober 7, 2014

Haute Couture Ateliers by Hélène Farnault

By Amanda

This is a gorgeous book for fashion lovers, particularly those that make things and appreciate the art and craft of sewing. Writer Hélène Farnault has gone into the ateliers of the French haute couture houses to interview some of… Read More

Novels & Biogs, We Are ReadingMarch 30, 2014

The Last Runaway, by Tracy Chevalier

By Amanda

Attention all quilters, this is a book you might want to check out. You may all remember the lovely Tracy Chevalier wrote Girl With A Pearl Earring, this is her latest tale, wrapped up in quilts, applique, Quakerism and slavery.… Read More

Out & AboutDecember 17, 2013

The Twelve Days of Christmas -expressed in the medium of knitting

By Amanda

I know I’ve mentioned Creation Knits in Barnes before, but it keeps on getting better with its window displays, I really HAVE to show you what its done for this Christmas because I think it’s the best thing since the… Read More

Art, Culture & Craft, We Are ReadingJune 12, 2013

The Hand-stitched Home by Caroline Zoob

By Amanda

If you love those country-style floral embroideries you come across on vintage tea cosies and napkins, this book is for you. Caroline Zoob spent ten years living in Virginia and Leonard Wolf’s Monks House and the experience has influenced her… Read More

Health & HappinessNovember 20, 2012

The Women’s Room explains how to avoid Christmas stress: knit! (or sew)

By Amanda

Over the past month I have been to a number of craft fairs and at all of them I was reminded of how so many of us love to make things. We may be as busy as heck but we… Read More

Home & GardenMarch 17, 2012

More sewing, this time with Chanel (see below post first)

By Amanda

Having posted the below post on Recycle and Sew this morning, some of our Twitter followers pointed out this great video on how to make a Chanel jacket (I’m looking at you @FionaHarkin) The Secret Of The Little Black Jacket,… Read More

Things We LoveNovember 6, 2011

Notions from Merchant & Mills

By Amanda

Since we’re on Christmas present watch, we can speak very highly of the Notions Box from Merchant & Mills, which comes beautifully wrapped and contains little jewel boxes of treasure -well made haberdashery things- if you are a sewer. Non… Read More