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DIY Heddle Bar to Speed up your Weave

I’ve spent a LOT of the past week weaving, mostly for just the one project that has really been grinding down my patience with each failure. I think I can put each mistake down to a lack of experience and planning. I rushed in with a carefree attitude and quickly realised that you only find out how much you dislike something after putting in the hours. It is so soul destroying to pick apart all this work each time but before I do I always try to find the reason it hasn’t worked first and take something from the failure…. Read More

Giveaway | Update your Blog with Blogzilla

I’m so excited to be hosting this amazing giveaway today! You can win a theme from the awesome Blogzilla and give your blog a beautiful makeover in literally just a few minutes. It’s such an easy way to make your site look more professional and make 2015 the year youup your blogging game! I’ve used a Blogzilla designed theme on my blog for almost a year now. After I made the move to WordPress last year I was so happy to have free reign to design my site but I quickly crash landed back down to reality when I realised… Read More

Social Media and Content Creation

Today I’m giving a talk at Spring Fair in Birmingham (for anyone who’s going today you can come and see me at 11.15). The talk is about growing your online brand by creating compelling and engaging content and then using social media to promote it and gain fans. I’m hoping everyone will come away with a new (or rejuvenated) love of blogging and be ready to start sharing away their lives and talents with all of their followers new and old. But I only have half an hour and that’s no where near enough time to dive into a in… Read More

DIY Minimal Knotted Rope Keychain

Today I wanted to share a couple of things with you. Firstly this DIY Minimal Knotted Rope Keychain tutorial I made is up over on Brit+Co. You can head over there to check out how to make it today. And secondly (here comes the soppy bit) just how much you guys all mean to me! If you following me on Instagram then you might have already heard me gushing about how I’m so happy to have this blog and the community we’ve made around it. It’s somewhere I know I can come and talk about some of the more difficult aspects… Read More

DIY Giant Loom

I know I’m not alone when I say how much I’ve loved watching this weaving trend develop and grow. As a textile design graduate anything involving building up textures and creating fabrics gets my heart pumping and I’ve jealously looked on at all the beautiful pieces on Instagram and Etsy. I wanted to join in and be making them as well – so it’s taken a while but I’ve decided that I would just go ahead and get weaving. But before I did I spent some time thinking about what was stopping me in the first place? Writing this blog I… Read More

DIY Concrete Hexagon Coasters

My coaster obsession continues. Give me anything that have such a simple function and combine that with texture, shape and design and I’m sold. As well as being beautifully minimal these concrete hexagon coasters have a wonderful irregular unity. They fit as a set but also each have their own ‘flaws’ or personality. I’m not quite sure how I’ve become so besotted with my coaster collection but it’s growing rapidly and I need to find other uses to even up my coaster mug ratio again (or perhaps I just need more mugs?) Which is another reason why I love this DIY… Read More

Fall For DIY Mollie Makes Takeover!

If you’re a regular reader or follow me pretty much anywhere online you’ll probably already know that I took over Mollie Makes Instagram and Pinterest last week. It was such fun! Hello to all you guys who might have found out about this little blog through the takeover. It’s a massive pleasure to have you here! You guys are ace. Throughout the take over I posted a few pictures of me putting some of my crochet skills to good use. I love an evening spent under a blanket stitching away but I always set my goals to high and tend… Read More

DIY Dotted Wall Clock

The clock face is definitely experiencing a comeback right now. I’m in dire need of a beautiful large face watch with a lovely beige strap. You know, if anyone reading just happens to make/sell them and wants to send one my way… I’ll take lots of pretty Instagram pictures… please!? Oh well,  shameless request over with. In all seriousness I really do love the new contemporary patterns and designs popping up on our time pieces in the past few years so I couldn’t resist giving one a go. I’ve never done anything with clock mechanisms before so I decided to… Read More

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