Maker's Questions and Knowledge
Where can I get my old sewing machine serviced in Northamptonshire?
I was recently given this lovely vintage Husqvarna Viking sewing machine by a family friend. Of course, I don't know how to use it at the moment as it is very different to my other old Toyota sewing m...
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Sewing
Sewing
Sewing Machine
What 35mm camera film can I use to take vintage looking photographs for my art journals?
I got this beautiful vintage 35mm camera from one of my local Freecycle groups. It is the Fujica STX-1 make and model. I have multiple lenses for it as well. I would really like to take artistic photo...
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Photography
Photography
Photograph
Papercraft
Journaling
How can I refurbish these old vintage Ercol dining chairs?
I was given these beautiful old vintage Ercol dining chairs by my Great Auntie. I have always admired them and she was kind enough to give them to me. My Great Auntie lives in a gorgeous old Grade II ...
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Furniture
Furniture
Upholstery
How can I upholster this old vintage chair to look more modern?
I was given this lovely old chair by an elderly neighbour as they were going to throw it out. It still has loads of life left in it, and it is really comfortable to sit on. I would like to modernise i...
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Upholstery
Upholstery
Furniture
What are the best fabric and sewing scissors?
I am in the market for some new fabric cutting and sewing scissors as mine have seen better days, they had actually seen better days 2 years ago. I need to buy new ones as I have got back into sewing ...
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Sewing
Sewing
What is the best paint for painting on a denim jacket?
I am going to a concert in October and I have a denim jacket that I would really like to decorate. I would like to paint onto the back of the jacket, and I am wondering what would be the best paint to...
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Painting
Painting
Fabric Painting
How can I restore this old vintage sewing machine?
I was recently given this beautiful vintage sewing machine by a lovely elderly lady in my area. It is really lovely and I would love to restore it and get it serviced properly before using it. I inten...
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Sewing
Sewing
Sewing Machine
How do you preserve pressed flowers forever?
I have just bought this beautiful flower press set and I am waiting for it to arrive. I have always wanted this vintage William Morris flower press and have been looking for a while, so when I found t...
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Flower Pressing
Flower Pressing
Floral
Flowers
What is the difference between FIMO professional and FIMO soft polymer clay?
I was in my local craft store today looking at the polymer clay for some jewellery making projects. I was wondering what is the difference between FIMO professional and FIMO soft polymer clay? I could...
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Jewellery
Jewellery
Jewellery Making
Clay
Polymer Clay
What is the best journal brand for scrap booking?
Hello, I have recently been watching some really fab YouTube channels about scrap booking and journaling and it has got me all excited.
So I did what I normally do in these situations and went slig...
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Journaling
Journaling
Scrap Books
Papercraft
Journals
How to make a four drawer chest of drawers?
I have to say the best piece of furniture I own is this wonderful four drawer chest of drawers that my mother's uncle made for her when she was young. She lived in a tiny house and didn't have much mo...
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Furniture
Chest of Drawers
Wood
Woddwork
Furniture
What can you make with old bottles?
Ok, first off, I'm not an alcoholic!!! It's the wife!
No, really I am joking. Our friend owns a micro pub and obviously, always has loads of bottles. Currently they just throw them all away. And I ...
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Glassware
Wine Bottles
Booze Bottles
Glass Bottles
Glass
Bottles
Is this a kiln? Any pottery experts out there?
Hi, my friend and I, have just moved into a new flat and we found this thing in our back garden. Left by a previous tenant or a previous, previous tenant, we don't know. And we really just wanted to k...
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Pottery
Pottery
Mystery
Kiln
Homemade Kiln
What are these huge wooden hoops used for?
Hello, can anyone tell me what these huge wooden hoops are used for? My friend went to a garage sale recently and took a photo of these huge hoops hanging up in the person's barn.
She took the phot...
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Embroidery
Wooden Hoops
Embroidery
Sewing
How to make your own lightbox?
Hello, I was recently clearing out my loft and I found this old lightbox my father made for me. It is around 40 years old and actually still works. But it is what it represents, that means so much to ...
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Woodwork
Lightbox
What can you make with pipe cleaners?
What can you make with pipe cleaners? Lol, really what on earth do you actually make with pipe cleaners? My daughter and I are always making little projects and have tried lots of different things. We...
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Crafts
Pipe Cleaners
Crafting
Papercraft
How to use a loom tutorial, please?
Hello, can anyone recommend a really good written tutorial on how to use a loom. I'm sorry, but I am a complete beginner and am really looking for something that starts right at the beginning and expl...
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Weaving
Loom
Tutorial
Beginner
What can I make with old teabags?
Ok so it all started when the wife said she read on the internet that you can fix a broken nail with a teabag. Something about using it to glue your nail back together or something. So of course, bein...
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Ideas
Teabags
Collecting
Scrap Booking
How to make a dining table from wooden crate boxes?
Just wanted to show off this amazing table my husband made. He is such a clever fellow. Not only did he make this fantastic table from wooden crate boxes. He also laid the patio in our back garden, us...
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Woodwork
Garden
Table
Wooden Crates
Vintage custom sewing machine what was it used for?
Hello, I have a bit of an odd question, hope there is a sewing expert out there who can help me. It's bugging me a bit :)
I was in a cute, little shop recently. It was just a vintage clothes shop a...
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Sewing
Vintage Sewing Machine
Mystery Sewing Machine
Singer Sewing Machine
How to upcycle an old teacher's school desk? Decoupage and painting advice needed?
Ok, so there was an accident and this desk sort of landed out of thin air, right into friend's balcony thing. Actually it was an attack squirrel who just ran into our school and instead of stealing th...
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Upcycling
School Desk
Upcycling
Decoupage
Painting
Is it possible to recover a lampshade?
I have been given loads of old lampshades by a friend of mine with the idea of recovering them with new and interesting fabrics. I would like to cover them in fabrics that do not come as standard on l...
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Soft Furnishings
Fabric
Soft Furnishings
Lampshades