Fab Mums

How quickly time passes, one minute your little ones are learning to walk and the next thing you know they are going through puberty! Well not quite that quickly, a lot happens along the ...

http://www.fabmums.com/2017/11/05/fabric-design-is-my-new-passion/

A few months ago I discovered an amazing American company that prints fabrics and paper on demand, you can upload your designs and have it printed on your favourite fabric. Spoonflower offers a g...

http://www.fabmums.com/2016/11/08/personalised-blanket/

I meant to have a go at making magazine yarn ever since I saw it on Pinterest a few months back, but I kept putting it off. Now that I have started I just ...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/10/05/crocheting-with-magazine-paper-yarn/

This is my latest upcycle project, a bedroom rug for my son’s bedroom made of old jeans. It took a little working out, as many of new know I am still new at sewing, ...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/10/01/upcyle-project-denim-rug/

After my recycling projects using old denim I was left with a lot of denim scraps. True to my philosophy not to waste anything I have been thinking of ways to use the left ...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/08/06/how-to-use-denim-scraps/

This is the map of Italy divided into regions and decorated with Zentangle Inspired Art. I originally drew the map for an education project, but I couldn’t resist to see what it would look lik...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/06/12/zentangle-inspired-maps/

I love to find a new purpose from all things. My favourite materials to transform are cardboard boxes, newspapers and magazines, and fabric. These projects are the result of me not fitting so wel...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/05/25/fabric-upcycle-what-you-can-make-from-old-dresses/

This portrait with hair in Zentangle Inspired Art style started off as an experiment, but I quite like the end result enough to share it here. I started by tracing a photo in Photoshop, ...

http://www.fabmums.com/2015/05/05/portrait-with-zia-hair/