Miss Maude Musings

To Make & To Give

With a few weeks to go until Christmas day, it's about the time to start thinking about gift giving, and if for you that might mean sewing or knitt...

Gifts Galore for Knitters or Sewists!

23 November 2021 - Making gift giving easier! We know that trying to think of gifts for everyone can be a challenge, especially when this time of y...

Father's Day - We Appreciate you Mr Maude!

18 August 2021 - We have some really great patterns ideal for gift giving, so we thought we'd share our favourite four patterns to sew and give tha...

Linen Apron - a sewing pattern by Miss Maude

28 July 2021 - This free sewing tutorial for a simple linen apron made up in our European Laundered Linen with cotton tape ties and featuring deep...

Sewing Tutorial: Tablet Cover

25 May 2021 - This slimline tablet cover is a quick, stylish and customisable project that will bring a little handmade sensibility to your technol...

Sewing Tutorial - Simple Linen Drawstring Bag

15 April 2021 - These easy to make drawstring bags can be sewn in a variety of sizes, and are unlined which really cuts down the time it takes to m...

Easy Gift Idea - The Bias Bound Woollen Blanket

7 April 2021 - This boiled wool throw is an easy sewing project that would be a perfect for a gift for your family or friends. Or just a great proj...

Project Ideas for Your Fabric Scraps

24 March 2021 - A selection of project or gift ideas for your offcuts or remnants from your stash. These project or gift ideas have been taken from...

wool and wax tote sewing review. sewing with oilskin waxed canvas and tweed wool fabric.

Sewing Review: The Wool and Wax Tote

23 March 2021 - The Wool and Wax Tote is a pattern from Issue 2 of Making Magazine. The bag is described as ‘a classic tote that will look great wi...

a close up image of the interior of a pouch featuring floral fabric and a rust coloured knit band

Sewing Review: The Petal Pouch

This is the second of our scrap blog posts from Gabrielle from Bibbity Bobbity Buttons. In it she talks us through how she used the leftover needle...

an image of a white woman wearing a rust coloured headband the slightly covers her ears. The image shows the side of the woman face looking off camera. She is wearing a mustard yellow jacket and a green and white check shirt. it has a black background

Sewing Tutorial: The Rib-Knit Headband

This is the first of two blog posts that she wrote for us detailing how she used the fabric offcuts. Hopefully this will spark some inspiration for...