Decided to start a new hobby? Please check my sewing supplies listings to see if you need to replenish your stocks. Die-cut shapes ready for applique work are always popular. Trims and ribbons likewise. Buttons are ideal as embellishments or for knitting and dress-making projects.
I'm also designing quilts and home-sewn items ready to cut necessary fabrics and get back to the sewing machine.
Have been busy adding Spring colour in my many patio pots, mainly for the bees. Wish the weather would make up its mind. Just need a bit more sunshine now.

Please continue to support the Ukranian people in their fightback. They need and deserve PEACE.

Enjoy the Spring.
Chrissie
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This is where we now live. Huge Fenland skies. Peace and quiet. Birdsong. Here I can feel free to create unique items.

My background:

I can vividly remember going to a fabric and haberdashery shop with my mum when I was three years old. I was enthralled by the amazing displays of fabrics, racks of colourful ribbons, braids, lace and many different buttons. I can see the whole shop interior in my head! It was the kind that no longer exist in our modern world.

I began hand sewing when I was 7, knitting when I was 4, machine sewing when I was 8, making my own clothes at 13 and dresses for my Granny and my Mother! I only learned to crochet, however, thirty years ago! Once married with babies, I made bed linen and baby clothes, soft toys, rag dolls and children's clothes, enjoying the process so much I made and sold items at Craft Fairs. I fitted this around bringing up 6 children. My love of fabrics and needlework has never diminished.

In my fifties I had a needlecrafts/patchwork shop. and helped set up a quilting group and we enjoyed learning new techniques, being taught by national visiting tutors and putting on exhibitions. This group flourishes to this day, even now I've moved away into the Fens, which is wonderful. Complete beginners to sewing became brilliant needlecrafters, producing amazing works of quilted art.

However, Fate had other plans for me and I gave up my shop when my Father was seriously ill. My own and my husband's health then took an adverse turn and I retreated to the family fold to recover and re-assess my future.

We moved from our beautiful rambling cottage near Cambridge to the North of the County in 2016. We have embraced the open vistas and amazing skies of the Fens. We have created a large wildlife garden, having the space to add many kinds of shrubs, trees and perennials. We are surrounded by thriving orchards, fields of crops and roses: perfect for butterflies and bees. We grow our own fruit and vegetables, have a flock of adorable chickens who roam the garden, a clowder of rescue cats and two beloved dogs.

I now have the space to design and create, cut and sew and store all my craft stashes and an office to sell from on the internet. We have space for the grown-up children to come and visit and enjoy the garden, the solitude and the wildlife. We have barn owls, tawnies, woodpeckers, goldfinches, bullfinches, wrens, song thrushes, blackbirds, sparrows, starlings, jays, jackdaws, kestrels, buzzards, myriad swallows swooping over the lawn. We enjoy watching murmurations of starlings above the orchards on a regular basis. We also enjoy the gulls swooping over the fields and calling loudly (reminding us of days past when we were at the seaside). In the season I am woken in the morning by the song of the cuckoo. Sheer bliss! We have a flock of black-faced Suffolk sheep as our new neighbours! In the Summer we are blessed by visiting varieties of butterflies and moths, including Humming Bird Moths from the Continent, which are fascinating to watch.

Crafting is my therapy to combat the anxieties of our modern world. Now, I don't just sew and knit, I crochet, paint, draw, create cards and make one-off pieces of jewellery using gemstones or hand-made glass beads. I also enjoy photography and embroidery. I hope you like my listings.

Chrissie
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