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Valentine’s day ideas to make
If you haven’t made a card for mummy or daddy yet here are some great ideas from AlphaMom. Ellen (AKA AlphaMom) has some very stylish ideas that you can make – maybe with a bit of help to find all the...
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Wee Mouse Project
While I was roaming about on Flickr I saw this sweet little project the children by Larissa Holland. This and other cute sewing projects are available to buy and download from Etsy/Larissa Holland....
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Mother’s day workshop
Saturday 17th March Wow, what a day! Today we made a keepsake Mother’s day card. The envelope is all hand stitched and the cards inside are all individual. We can’t show too much this early as we...
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Positive Feedback
I just wanted to say thank you for the sewing workshop yesterday. J really enjoyed it and I loved my Mothers’ Day present! My mum, an ex-needlework teacher, was here today and was VERY impressed with...
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Lion Bookmark Tutorial
30 minute sewing project for a wet afternoon If you are looking to fill an little time with a craft project with the children, this lion bookmark is a simple project to do. You can follow the lion...
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There be Monsters!
Monster Making Workshop Saturday 19 May 2-4pm Earlier today we made some new monster friends at our Monster making workshop. We had 8 very excited children designing monster beanies and as you can...
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Pincushion / Bag Charm Workshop
On Monday 3rd September we ran an inset day sewing workshop for ten girls. It was a pleasure to welcome some new faces and a nice surprise to see that the new girls already new some of our regulars...
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Halloween Workshops
Following on from the success of our Monster Making Workshops back in May this year we adapted our template and came up with three Halloween ghouls; Bertram Bat, Derek Devil and Millicent our pretty...
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April Workshop
Spring Birds Garland Hopefully we won’t be dodging too many raindrops in April but just incase we need to fill time on a rainy day, we have a new Spring Bird Garland workshop for you. Lots of colours...
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Rag Doll Workshop
How cute is she? I know you are going to love our new rag doll project. We have been supplied patterns from Simplicity (1900) to make our own version of a the Rag doll – we are calling ours Betty...
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Spring has Sprung!
We welcomed Spring to Strawberry Hill last week with our Spring Bird Charm workshops. Over the day 19 girls and 1 lucky boy made their own seasonal decoration. We’ve put all the photos we took on the...
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As Summer Fades
It seems like it’s been a long summer break – we’ve had a wonderfully relaxing holiday. Ann-Marie and myself have been busy thinking up fun ideas for Autumn/Winter 2013 and have listed a whole term’s...
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Wee Mouse Tin House
Some time ago I blogged about Larissa Holland’s brilliant Wee Mouse in a Tin House. The Children loved the idea of making something that they could play with so we bought the PDF pattern and had a...
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Teacher gift ideas
New – Teacher gift workshop We have two Teacher gift workshops coming up. We’ve designed these cute fridge magnets that children can attach to their thank you cards. It’s always nice to give something...
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