The Adventurous Aquarium is growing! This fish sparkles with sequins, beads and thread, there should be enough glitter for the magpie in all...

Another pattern to play with.  I used honeycomb for the filling with two twists throughout the ground.  You could work this without the twis...

This is a version of the Beaded Bracelet in an earlier post which uses the same loop and button fastening and the same way of adding and thr...

 Leaf Tally Fish, a new addition to the Adventurous Aquarium. Print out at A4. Add pairs for the fins and for the inside edge passives of th...

My new Beaded Bracelet pattern introduces a few new techniques which are also shown as videos on my YouTube channel.  The beaded bracelet pa...

Teeny owls checking out the new Christmas Star fresh of my pillow.   I used a few new techniques and enjoyed the challenge of figuring out a...

Moving pictures, how very modern!   I have had a go at making some youtube videos to help with making my seahorse and, hopefully, other begi...

Continuing with the aquarium theme, l drew an ellipse shape to make into fishes.  Threw in seed beads, chevron braids, sequins and a variety...

 Thank goodness l finished the seaweeds at last.  My seahorses were floating around all over the place😄   Curly seaweed is made with random...

Adventurous Seahorse needed a home so here it is, Adventurous Seaweed!  I'm off to see what I can find to use as adventurous thread to m...

 Gift pattern of my tiny Adventurous Kitty. Ideal for inserting in keyfobs, phone cases and cards. This little Adventurous Kitty design i...

In my customary 'made up as I go along' manner, I make cakes the same way.   This is the latest favourite bake.  It's all about ...

Pattern has been updated, and made available in 2 sizes to allow for different paper sizes in US.  Now in A4 and US Letter size.  Digging th...

Dipping into the world of video tutorials.   A few verbal typos but videoing in one take using just a mobile phone is nerve wracking!   http...

Presenting a new gift pattern of the Adventurous Seahorse. The idea behind this gift pattern is to encourage experimentation using a simple ...

 My Mum is fascinated by the worms in her compost bin and likes to check they are doing well.  It tickled me when she said she had to lean i...

 Before l made bobbin lace, l used embroidery as a colourful way to combine my doodles and threads.  I heard about using little quilts as bo...

I played at thread chicken again😁🐓.  Several bobbins were running out of thread. I was so near the end of a piece so l risked  tying short...

Hotch Potch, the rare 'Threadendicus Ridikulus' bird likes to play with spangling beads and read lace magazines. This daft bird star...

 Where else would you find a tiny glass dragon but on a tiny mushroom pincushion?

 Looks a bit like Milanese, but it is what l call 'Muaiga' lace.  The fun of this piece is that there is no pattern other than the o...

 l needed something to keep my longer tools handy without taking up space on my pillow or rolling away all the time.  This is what l made, a...

Finished my Bedfordshire style letter 'O' design and these cheeky little penguins jumped in to skate about!  

My Guiding Star Pattern, a gift in memory of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth ll I had just started making my Guiding Star when the news came in ...