Hi there! I have a fun little project for you and the kids to make during lock-down. These adorable puffy hearts are perfect for beginner sewists and can be made from either fabric or felt. You can make them into hanging ornaments, pincushions, cat toys or fill them with some lavender to create sweet smelling sachets for your drawers. Here's what you'll need to make one Puffy Heart: ✼ Sewing machine and thread, a pair of embroidery scissors, pins, bead needle, long doll needle, pinking…

Although I have not set out to just make hearts at the classes at Heart Space Studios they are proving very popular in several different textiles workshops. I decided to make my first teaching wor…

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Where has March gone? On the last day of February we travelled again to Ballyvaughan for the Concertina school. While my husband was learning we 'wags' (haha!) were having some creative fun in our little cottage. I first took some felt making stuff last year and all enjoyed it so this year we made flowers. Now some the actual musicians want to skip class next year and join us! Here are the flowers .... and here they are when we remembered to remove the wine bottle! As far as the…

What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No, not just for some, but for everyone... -- Dionne Warwick These velvet hearts are so soft and simple. I have given them as tokens of friendship and also offered them at times when friends or their children (or my children) needed comfort. They are small enough to keep in a pocket or on a bedside table, and they feel lovely when rubbed between the…

Antonia Rossi (Antomoon) is an artist based in Bologna, Italy. She mainly creates embroidery and delicate artworks using Venetian beads and vintage fabrics as their distinctive features.

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