Cheap, 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…
Here 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.
We 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
July 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!
As 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.
It was love at first sight when we clapped eyes on these gorgeous Moroccan cushions and we just knew you’d want us to share!
Whether 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.
We just love this gorgeous little birdy from the girls at Twin Fibers. His felty chest feathers make him really stand out and how sweet are the little song notes!
This book first called out to me from the heavy set trestle table of the Urban Outfitter’s book dept. It was most unexpected. I had only nipped in for a sneaky late back to work nose at the sale rail, but as I slid along the shiny parke floor I saw the words I’d always dreamt of seeing in the same sentence: indie + craft.
Now, for you die hard publishing fans, who are already saying “this book has been out for while” you’d be right, and we know, but seeing as the Mollie Makes blog launched post it being published, we cannot miss the opportunity to include and express love.
Indie Craft is an inspiring anthology of craftiness showcasing the supercool wave of craft that’s made the world sit up and take note.
Boy oh boy, there are some talented people out there – looking at you textile designer Jane Foster! Influenced by Scandinavian design, Jane’s 50′s and 60′s clean line screen prints are refreshingly simple yet hit the mark for the vintage and retro trend. From aprons to cushions, cards and soft toys, Jane’s recognisable work has been printed onto all sorts of material and sold in shops including Clothkits and Habitat. Here at Mollie Makes we do love to fly the flag for British designers and we are proud to call Jane our own. We don’t know about you but we would absolutely love one (or five) of Jane’s Tilda dolls and she has been kind enough to give one away to one lucky Mollie Makes reader! (Jealous us? Just a bit).