Update: Minion Quote Filled

WANTED: Some willing victims/stitcher's...

I am looking for 2-3 stitcher's of varying abilities. Who have a bit of spare time to test out one of my hand embroidery patterns. I want to make sure that the instructions are easy to follow, that the designs themselves print out fine on standard printers and above all that the design is nice to work.

If the pattern turns out to be utterly fine then you will have the pattern for free, my undying love, a shout on my blog and a little thank you gift. If they need tweeking then I'll also send you the revised version for you to keep.

The pattern itself is readily available but I am in the middle of reviewing it as I have a chance to sell it on the BBKA website, so I want to double, double check that they are perfect. 

Please only contact me if you are sure you can spare a bit of time to do this, ideally you'd be in the UK but I'd be open to International, and be able to do it in the next couple of weeks or soon as you can. 

The pattern will be emailed to you, and all I need is you to keep me posted on your progress. A picture or two would be great along the way also.

Leave a comment here if interested! Or contact me on Etsy.

How to Help a Crafty Person

I've had my fair share of creativity blocks over the years, it can last a mere day or it can take weeks if not longer to get over that hurdle. Sometimes it can come out of the blue and the answer to it also can appear out of no where. 

I've pushed projects to one side simply because I don't know what to do it with it because I simply don't think it looks right, its missing something. So on..

One thing I often found useful to get over this was bouncing ideas off other people, even better if its in a place that isn't your home, workroom of where ever it is you get your craft on.

So I was musing therefore this morning of perhaps doing a little session like this. Quite relaxed, perhaps in a coffee shop of even the pub, where people can bring their projects or just themselves and a willingless to share and help others. Hopefully in return you will get over your hurdle, or creativity block whilst helping out someone else in the process. A nice bit of karma.

This is something that can easily be slotted into existing networking sessions, coffee mornings etc, but taking it to a slightly different level. 

I don't know about you, but I love helping people and I like coming up with creative solutions, giving ideas and suggestions to others. 

Not sure, if by the end of this musing, it makes sense and how I would move it to the next stage, especially given my limited time, but I am feeling somewhat more inspired to pull my finger out since seeing the lovely Anna in the Daily Mail. 

Picture Postie

A small post, only in the writing sense, just to say I've finished my mini quilt project, and would love now to have a bit of feedback. I keep wondering if there is more I should do to it, add more tana lawn, more actual quilt stitches? Just before I decide to send the images off to Liberty.


Thoughts appreciated.


Ps. you can see larger images of these on my Flickr account.