Stitch, Please! Dabbling With Embroidery and Creative Connections

Sewcial needlework and inspiring yarns – embroidery is more than just embellishments on cloth and clothing. Our Sewing Coordinator Laura Jackson tells us about a...

Hop to It: 5 Speedy Scrap-Busting Easter Projects

If the scent of butter-slathered buns and the promise of a long, lazy weekend has you feeling stitchy, then we have just the thing for...

The Stitch Up: This Month’s Me-Made Finds are Sew Spectacular

Well, stitchy friends, for a short month (albeit longer than usual this year) you clever clan have pulled together an impressive number of outstanding makes...

Thinking of You Gift fosters creativity and inclusivity with handmade treasures

Since opening, Thinking of You Gift has offered a rainbow of handmade, socially responsible and fair trade gifts while sewing the seeds of inclusivity. words...

Peppermint’s New Sewing Expert Commits To Shopping Her Fabric Stash…

We are beyond thrilled to introduce Peppermint’s sparkly new Sewing Coordinator, the lovely Laura Jackson. Based on Gubbi Gubbi land (the Sunshine Coast), Laura is...

The Stitch Up: The Coolest, Cleverest, Thriftiest Makes of the Month

If all the pretty Peppermint makes we’ve come across thus far are anything to go by, 2024 is set to be a bold, bright year...

Sew Much Love: How This Kindness Project Became A Global Phenomenon

In 2016, one Hobart woman decided to sew and distribute small felt hearts to anyone who felt in need of love or wanted to offer...

Crikey, I’ve Lost My Sewjo! Here’s How to Get It Back

All sewists have experienced it at one time or another – the mysterious case of the lost sewjo. Overnight the act of sewing, once a...

Start Your Sewing Machines! The Latest Issue of Sew&Tell is Available Now

We like to think creating each issue of Sew&Tell is similar to setting up our own dream sewing room. There’s a lot of time spent...

Cut from the Same Cloth: A Love Story Beats at the Heart of This Fabric Store

For Rebecca Harper, Weft and Warp – an independent fabric store and sewing studio based in Canberra – is more...

Designer Ellie Whittaker on Spreading Fabric Joy and Making a Fool of Herself

Based in what she calls a “creekside paradise” on the Gold Coast, Ellie Whittaker has quickly made a name for herself and the bold, joyful...

The Stitch Up: These Peppermint Patterns Are Bringing Serious Holiday Cheer

December has been and almost gone, so it's time to look back on 2023 and reminisce on all the good things...