Make Room for Creativity With These Top Tips for Crafty Spaces
Whether you have a small corner desk or an entire room dedicated to getting crafty setting up a great creative space…
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The Stitch Up – July Was Jam-Packed With Sewing Joy
What a pile of precious makes you’ve showered upon us this month, Peppermint pals…
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“Rise and Sew”: Sue-Ching Lascelles Stands Up to Bullying
The Close to My Heart project – the passion project of Brisbane-based artist, sewist, Peppermint Cover Girl…
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So You Want to… Start Living More Sustainably
According to a recent, self-conducted survey, Endeavour College found almost half (46%) of participants cared more about their health now…
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“I Aspired Not to Be Ladylike – But to Be Humane”: Stories of Unladylike Behaviour
The voices of women, girls and non-binary folk have often been silenced when it comes to history, politics, science, art…
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Village Green: Your Sustainable Travel Guide to the Central Coast
As humans return to their globe-trotting ways post-pandemic, the more unsettling realities of industrialised global…
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Nice Rack! Feel the Animal Magnetism With These Melbourne-Made Sweaters
At the risk of stating the obvious, the clothes we wear matter. And not just in the sense of sartorial splendour and self-expression…
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Come On Barbie, Let’s Go Party: A Sewist’s Guide to Barbiecore
Barbara Millicent Roberts, better known to friends and fans as Barbie, is having somewhat of a cultural renaissance…
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I Spent 10 Years Trying to Change the Fashion Industry and Failed
Claire Goldsworthy has re-launched, re-branded and re-birthed The Fashion Advocate – pivoting in the looming…
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Want to Learn to Sew But Don’t Know Where to Start? Hit the Library Pal
There are A LOT of books about sewing in the world. And whether you call yourself a seamstress or are yet to…
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One Ticket to Cosy Town: Rug Up in These Sustainable Knitwear Labels
We’ve settled into our cosy winter wardrobes here in the southern hemisphere, though of course with global warming…
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Lush Switched Off Social Media… Now It’s Pushing for Change IRL
At a time when most businesses – large and small – are beholden to the whims of the algorithm…
