Thread… A festival of Textiles
Oct
15 Posted at 08.00
15 Posted at 08.00
We’re heading to Thread… A festival of Textiles
textiles
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Get sewing! Our favourite projects
Sep
26 Posted at 10.24Today we round up our very favourite sewing projects. Dust off that machine and get inspired
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Mollie Makes visits Gawthorpe Hall
Jun
10 Posted at 20.03We visit Gawthorpe Hall on Embroidery Exploration Day to see their outstanding textiles collection
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Thrifty Thursday: Notebook cover
Mar
29 Posted at 09.30Cheap, chic and incredibly cute. Today’s thrifty make is the brainwave of Mary Jane Baxter, author of Chic on a Shoestring. With the help of a colour photocopier and a piece of her hand-stitched patchwork, Mary’s created this crafty notebook cover…
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Win The Shirt Off His Back!
Aug
25 Posted at 08.53Here at Mollie Makes nothing makes us happier than a bit of craft with a dash of upcycling. Last month we featured the fab new book The Shirt Off His Back by Juliet Bawden and we are delighted to be givng it away to one lucky reader.The Shirt off his Back provides crafters with the ultimate thrifty, creative project book with 30 fab ideas to transform those old men’s shirts into wonderfully useful items such as bunting, bags, doorstops and chairs.
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Stitch ‘a’ long
Aug
20 Posted at 11.00We all know stitching is as old as the hills. Not only does it have its place in the record books through the making of garment essentials but it has a firm place in history as a decorative art.Through many a stitch, some of the greatest pieces of artwork the world over have been created by talented stitchers. What we really find exciting is the trend to replicate absolutely anything through stitches, with nothing too strange to put a needle to. How lovely is the simplicity of this paper plane project created by the girl herself Little Lovelies By Allison
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Fill your world with crochet flowers
Jul
18 Posted at 17.13July is a miserable month round these parts. As I look out of the window at Mollie HQ the wind is blowing a hoolie and it’s raining cats and dogs. Ah good old British summertime! Thank goodness issue 3 of Mollie Makes is a little ray of sunshine, with its bright sunny cover and kaleidoscope of crochet flowers making us feel all warm inside. We are really pleased to be joining forced with Carmen Heffernan for this months cover project. Carmen’s petals make the perfect cover shot and inside the mag she not only shows us how to create a bouquet of beauties but butterflies and leaves too!
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Join us at Vintage!
Jul
12 Posted at 16.03As you may have spotted in this month’s Mollie Makes we are super excited to reveal we’re going to be at Vintage on the Southbank at the end of the month. Hoopla!
Earlier this year when word got round Wayne and Gerardine Hemingway were taking their iconic festival to the big smoke, we put our hands hand high in the air and said we want to come, oh yes we do!
Vintage runs from the 29-31 July 2011 and promises to be an amazing weekend celebrating British creativity as part of the Festival of Britain’s 60th anniversary.
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Comp alert! Oh what a charming cushion she cried!
Jul
05 Posted at 19.01It was love at first sight when we clapped eyes on these gorgeous Moroccan cushions and we just knew you’d want us to share!
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Look book! Creative Walls
Jul
05 Posted at 10.25Whether you rustle up beans on toast from your basement flat or cook your supper on a rusty Rayburn in your country pad, your home is your castle. A book shelf always speaks a thousand words but don’t let your conversations stop there. Adorn, hang, stick up and pin, the walls of your home are just waiting for to document your goings on, real life scrapbooking. Catalogued clutter is cool.
Creative Walls – How to Display and Enjoy Your Treasures collections is a ‘living Pinterest’. This new book by Geraldine James applauds hoarders like us and says it’s ok to collect, it’s what you do with it that counts.