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January 08, 2025

Scrap Ribbon Gift Tags and Card Toppers

January 08, 2025/ Sum of their Stories
Scrap Ribbon Gift Tags and Card Toppers

How to make pretty little gift tags or card toppers from all your ribbon scraps.

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January 08, 2025/ Sum of their Stories/ 11 Comments
Greeting Cards, General Papercrafts
greeting cards, papercraft, pretty ideas, thrifty tips, tutorials, Gift Wrap, ribbon
December 11, 2024

How to make a gift boxes from old greeting cards

December 11, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
How to make a gift boxes from old greeting cards

Make sweet little gift boxes from last years Christmas cards, a fun and easy upcycling idea.

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December 11, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 14 Comments
Christmas
Christmas, papercraft, recycling/repurposing, thrifty tips, tutorials
October 02, 2024

How to make a Knitting Needle Case from a pillowcase

October 02, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
How to make a Knitting Needle Case from a pillowcase

Make a case for all your knitting and crochet needles, hooks and accessories from an old pillowcase

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October 02, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 12 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 1
Sewing my Stash, gift ideas, sewing, tutorials
June 26, 2024

Felt Gift Card Envelope

June 26, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
Felt Gift Card Envelope

Gift cards are such a useful gift idea but it's nice to make them a bit special by making them their own felt envelopes.

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June 26, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 32 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 1
Gift Wrap, gift ideas, sewing, tutorials
May 30, 2024

Drawstring Patchwork Toy Bag

May 30, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
Drawstring Patchwork Toy Bag

How to make a cute patchwork drawstring bag, perfect for toys or other baby and toddler paraphernalia. 

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May 30, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 17 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 1
sewing, tutorials, for baby, sewing tutorial
February 21, 2024

"Cornishware" Ruffled Shopping Bag

February 21, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
"Cornishware" Ruffled Shopping Bag

Give a plain old tote bag a pretty ruffled makeover with scraps of fabric. Stripes of blue and white give it a look reminiscent of Cornishware pottery.

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February 21, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 45 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery, Waste not Want not
recycling/repurposing, refashion, sewing, tutorials, bags
January 10, 2024

How to sew a Scrap Felt Heart

January 10, 2024/ Sum of their Stories
How to sew a Scrap Felt Heart

Turn scraps of felt, lace and ribbon into a pretty scrappy heart brooch or a keyring

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January 10, 2024/ Sum of their Stories/ 64 Comments
Valentines, Jewellery, Sewing and Embroidery
embroidery, gift ideas, pretty ideas, sewing, tutorials, Felt, sewing tutorial
November 01, 2023

Marbled Clay Jewellery

November 01, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
Marbled Clay Jewellery

Easy to make jewellery ideas for air dry clay

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November 01, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 16 Comments
Jewellery
Air Hardening Clay, Product review, art, jewellery, tutorials, bunting
September 13, 2023

DIY Coasters including the fails!

September 13, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
DIY Coasters including the fails!

How to make colourful cut out coasters with pleather and felt, including some of my craft fails along the way!

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September 13, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 17 Comments
everything else 4
Home Decorating, gift ideas, tutorials, what can go wrong
August 23, 2023

Liberty Fabric and Bead Bracelet

August 23, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
Liberty Fabric and Bead Bracelet

An easy way to use scraps of pretty fabric to make a beautiful beaded bracelet.

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August 23, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 26 Comments
Jewellery
gift ideas, jewellery, pretty ideas, tutorials, bracelet, beads
June 20, 2023

Polka Dot Embroidered Tote Bag

June 20, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
Polka Dot Embroidered Tote Bag

How to use simple embroidery on bright polka dot fabric and then turn it into a sweet little tote bag.

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June 20, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 36 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 1
Sewing my Stash, bags, embroidery, pattern, sewing, tutorials
March 01, 2023

3 Ways to Make Pom Poms without a Pom Pom Maker

March 01, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
3 Ways to Make Pom Poms without a Pom Pom Maker

3 easy ways to make pom poms without a pom pom maker

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March 01, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 4 Comments
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Pom poms, tutorials
January 10, 2023

Upcycle old Christmas Cards into New Gift Tags

January 10, 2023/ Sum of their Stories
Upcycle old Christmas Cards into New Gift Tags

Are you de-Christmassing your house about now? If so, this is when you need to be making next years gift tags.

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January 10, 2023/ Sum of their Stories/ 19 Comments
Christmas, General Papercrafts, Waste not Want not
Christmas, papercraft, recycling/repurposing, tutorials
November 30, 2021

How to sew EPP hexagons by hand

November 30, 2021/ Sum of their Stories
How to sew EPP hexagons by hand

How to hand stitch EPP English paper Piecing Hexagons. A little tribute to Pearl, my nan as this is the method she taught me.

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November 30, 2021/ Sum of their Stories/ 4 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 4, Their Stories
patchwork, craft tutorials, sewing tutorial, tutorials, their stories, Hand Sewing
July 28, 2021

Heart Patchwork Sweatshirt Update

July 28, 2021/ Sum of their Stories
Heart Patchwork Sweatshirt Update

Update an old sweatshirt with an embroidered patchwork heart applique. Great to cover a logo or design you no longer want or to upgrade a plain top.

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July 28, 2021/ Sum of their Stories/ 15 Comments
Sewing and Embroidery 4, Refashions
refashion, sewing, sewing tutorial, Sewing my Stash, tutorials
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