Tea and a Sewing Machine
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I'm Anna and I live in rural Norfolk in the UK. My mum taught me how to use a sewing machine when I was 10 and I haven't looked back! I love making all sorts of things and I hope you find inspiration here.
Tea and a Sewing Machine
5d ago
We’re now into December, and I’m not doing Christmas crafts. That sounds really grumpy, and anti- Christmas! I actually don’t have a problem with people doing Christmas crafts. It’s just […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
2w ago
A little while ago, I was reading an email newsletter that mentioned a tv programme called Alone. I’ve never seen Alone, but from the sound of things, it has a […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
1M ago
I often find that when the weather starts to get colder, I feel more inclined to woolly crafts. If it’s something larger, like a blanket, of course it has the […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
1M ago
Making leaf rubbings, like the paintings of leaves that I wrote about in the last post, is another easy, low risk way to respond in a creative way to the […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
1M ago
I like to think of leaves as autumn’s equivalent of springtime blossom. Like the blossom, it’s only for a few short weeks. And if the weather is bad and it’s […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
2M ago
Now that October’s here, I’ve got plans for making autumn themed things. Here where I live, autumn isn’t quite as beautiful as it is in other parts of the world, […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
2M ago
There’s a song by the Saw Doctors (an Irish rock band who were big in the 90s so subsequently now are a bunch of old men!) that says about liking […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
2M ago
I’m currently working on a project for my textiles degree where I need to dye small amounts of fabric and roving with natural dyes. I have tried dyeing with plant […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
3M ago
September can feel like an in between kind of month. In early September, it’s usually like summer still. The new school term often seems to coincide with a heat wave, […]
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Tea and a Sewing Machine
3M ago
At the end of July, we went on holiday to Montenegro. To be completely honest now, when I agreed to it, I didn’t actually know where Montenegro was. I think […]
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