Handmade Heaven: Easy craft sewing tutorials

A beginner’s heaven

Aimee Brock
10 May 2011

Sewing or crafting with fabric is becoming cool again, as the range of quality imported fabrics grow and young Mums try to create a ‘unique’ look or encourage old-fashioned play and role modelling.

Myself, I adore fabric – the colours, the prints, the texture, the possibilities! Luckily, through my business I am lucky enough to have access to a massive range of wholesale and imported 100% cotton quilting fabrics; and I also still visit Spotlight and knit/merino fabric shops regularly as a retail customer, to make clothing or interior design products for my family.

Because I can’t throw out my fabric scraps, I have plastic bins upon plastic bin of fabric remnants and cut offs sitting in storage that I eventually find little craft projects for.

So when I saw this awesome round up of 24 craft projects you can make with fabric scraps on Make It Love It – I was in seventh heaven!

If you’re just getting started in sewing and making small crafts sounds like you, have a go! To gather up a range of fabric scraps, visit Spotlight or a quilting or specialty fabric store; or buy ‘grab bags’ or ‘fat quarters’ from New Zealand online fabric shops such as Sew Pretty, Sew Addictive Fabrics, Stitchbird Fabrics or Thumpacat Fabrics.

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About the author:
Aimee Brock is a life-long admirer of handmade crafts and gifts, and recently started her own handmade children’s label, lily pad designs.