by Emmely | May 17, 2023 | Finished project, Quilting
During the Christmas break of 2021/2022 I made a couple of small whole cloth quilts. I wanted a project that I could work on downstairs while spending time with my family. For the first quilt I used a simple concept. Don’t waste thread. I’d take a piece of Wonderfil...
by Emmely | Feb 13, 2021 | Finished project, Sewing
Some days I simply crave a finish. Luckily I have plenty of unfinished projects lying around to satisfy that itch. One was half a pillow that I started for one of the projects in the Alison Glass stitch club 2020 that focused on hand stitching. This was a project from...
by Emmely | Mar 26, 2015 | Sewing
For the latest project I am working on it was strongly advised to run the thread through beeswax for some of the hand sewing parts. I did not have beeswax and needed it now, so online shopping wasn’t an option. The two stores in Leiden that sell sewing related stuff...
by Emmely | Dec 13, 2014 | English paper piecing, Sewing
Ever since first trying English paper piecing I’ve been having new ideas of what to use this technique for besides quilts. One of those was 3D shapes. Small 3D shapes can be challenging to sew with a sewing machine because they often contain Y-seams. Sewing these...
by Emmely | Jul 6, 2014 | Sewing, Sewing tip, Tutorial
A lot of people really dislike hand sewing and I think this is often due to needle threading issues. If you have to spend 10 minutes each time trying to poke a thread end through a tiny hole it can get really frustrating. It doesn’t have to be though. I thread most of...
