If you've been around a while, you'll know that we usually run a children's design competition over Christmas.  For various reasons, I'm afraid that didn't happen this year. (OK, last year!) Instead, it's going to happen now - perfect timing for those of you trying to home-school your children! This will make a great creative project to help keep your children amused and educated whilst they're stuck at home.  And

  Our February club night is going to be spent creating your own fabric design and getting it ready for printing.  This is suitable for all ages, so if you're home-schooling, it's a perfect 'Art lesson', which you can join in with your children. Creating a fabric design doesn't have to be difficult.  We will create a design similar to the ones in this week's blog post, Design With Your Children.   

  So, we're back in Lockdown and back to home schooling for many of you. If you want to encourage your children with something creative, why not try designing fabric together? Creating a seamless repeat is tricky, so avoid that.  Otherwise, there are all sorts of ways you can create a design which even the youngest children can join in with.  Imagine the satisfaction they will feel when they see their design printed on fabric!  You

  If  you follow Fabric Fun Craft Club on Instagram, you may remember that I made a little skirt for my granddaughter in the summer, using Marnie Makes' Rainbow design.  I wanted a skirt with an elasticated waist at the back, a waistband at the front and pockets - because we all like pockets in our skirts, don't we!  (Apparently, my GD proudly told anyone who would listen that she had pockets when she first started wearing

  It seems odd to be talking about Christmas, when we don't know what it's going to look like yet.  However, whatever happens, however many (or few!) people we can spend it with, December 25th will roll round in 5 weeks time.  Royal Mail is already struggling to cope with demand, with some orders taking several days to arrive, despite being posted First Class.  So, please try not to leave ordering anything you want for

  Take a bit of time out from Christmas preparations and relax with the Fabric Fun Craft Club.  Sign up for our December club night and make some no-sew Christmas decorations.  We'll make a fabric acorn and a traditional Danish heart basket. Club night will be on Thursday, December 10th at 8pm.  As always, we'll meet in our FB group, although I'm considering using Zoom for club nights.  What do you

  Now that it is fairly easy to get small quantities of fabric  printed  (from 20cms²), do you ever think that you'd like to create your own design?  And then think, 'But I don't know where to start!'? Here is your chance to try designing with a hand to guide you along the way. Over the next 5 days, I'll walk you through creating your own Christmas tea towel design.  It doesn

Sadly, there was only one entry in this year's Christmas design competition, so Suzanne Jones, aka Heckadoodledo, wins uncontested. Thanks for your entry, Suzanne, and congratulations!   You can find this and other Christmas designs in our Market Place by clicking on Christmas in the themes in the filter.

  We finally managed to get our October club night last night, when we made a start on our 'heirloom' Advent Calendars.  As I suspected, we didn't get very far with the actual making, we spent most of our time on embroidery, sewing on hooks and getting parcels ready for under the tree.  We'll finish them off at our November meeting , along with making decorations. If you signed up for October and November last month, you

  It's two years since our last survey, so I thought it would be interesting to run another one.  There are only 10 questions, so it will only take about 4 minutes to complete, but it helps us to get a picture of our customers.   I would be very grateful if you would complete the survey as fully as you can.  You may, of course, omit any questions you don't want to answer or

   We haven't had many design competitions this year, so I thought we'd have a Christmas cushion competition.  They've been reasonably popular in the past, both with designers and with buyers.   So, your challenge this month, should you choose to accept it, is to design a Christmas cushion.  Your design can be traditionally Christmassy, or less traditional.  Or maybe traditional with a twist.  It can be a 'picture' or an all

  Those of you who have been around a while will know that I don't usually like starting to think about Christmas so early.  Somehow, though, it seems different this year.  We want to make Christmas really special, after the awful year we've had, even if it's not our usual Christmas.  And that takes advance planning.  (My daughter started to plan some sort of trail, so that we could all meet up outside

  What is it about Christmas that makes us want to make things?  So many of us make decorations, table coverings, placemats and many other things from the many lovely Christmas fabrics around. So why not make something special this year which you can bring out year after year? Many years ago, I made this Advent calendar.  The little pockets hold a decoration for the tree and a card. The card has a picture relating to one part