Window 17 opens something unexpectedly sweet: fabric trees in the most simple imaginable style. Keep reading for a link to the free pattern and our fabric tips! The Pattern This free pattern by Art Gallery fabrics allows you to create fabric trees in three different sizes, so you could make a whole forest of your suitable scraps. Or why not put your most precious collection to use when ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 16 – A Tree Skirt Pattern
Window 16 gets us steps closer again to Christmas Eve as we're revealing yet another fabric manufacturer about to hit our shelves in 2021. Read on, friends! A Tree Skirt By Ruby Star Society And Some Deeper Stuff Today's free pattern is called Candlelight Tree Skirt and designed by Alexia Marcelle Abegg and Melody Miller, two of the original founders of brand Cotton+Steel, until they moved ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 15 – The Small But Feisty Macaron
What's small but feisty in its adorable and ridiculously delicious package? The macaron, of course. And window 15 reveals how you can make your own! (Of fabric, not dough, silly.) Supplies First off, I've never made one of these. I just know them from Pinterest and the Prym catalog, so there you have it. Its tiny size means I probably wouldn't manage anything this small and fiddly for now ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 14 – A Lucky Star Pattern
What hides behind the 14th window you think? Figo Fabrics! Read on, dear friend :) Lucky Star Mini Quilt Lucky Star is a quilt pattern generously provided for free by Figo Studio of Figo Fabrics and you find it on on their website. It features the beautiful basics collection Lucky Charms by Ghazal Razavi. Obviously you don't have to go all rainbow, though, but can choose ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 13 – Quietly Festive Kitties
Happy Lucia day here in Finland and wherever else she is celebrated! Today window 13 opens a free pattern with musings to go on what festive "should" mean. Keep reading for an introduction to Dear Stella Design as well. Kitty Pattern Furst (sorry ;)) of all, you'll find this free pattern on the Dear Stella Design website. It's called Bearing Gifts and the quilt is by Wendy ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 12 – A Surprise Inside
Window 12 is incredibly quick to open! A Surprise For You Collect your 5,90 € discount valid until 24 December when shopping for a minimum of 60 €. This corresponds to free shipping in Finland and applies to everyone. Use coupon code DarknessCrafts at checkout and the discount is yours! 24 Calendar Windows Find all blog posts of our calendar in this gallery: ... View Post
Advent Calendar Day 11 – Sparkly Ponderings
Today on 11 December the shop has had a delivery and I find myself wanting to write some text instead of offering an image-heavier post, so welcome to open a window to some behind the seams! Where We Are Now Sentti & Tuuma opened the webshop doors on 10 July at 10.07 and it's been an adventure ever since. (Yes, that actually happened. And then customers started telling me about problems ... View Post
Advent Calendar Day 10 – A Fabric Palette For A Pot Holder
Day 10 opens something as homely and mundane as a pot holder! Scroll down for our fabric suggestions as well as a link to the pretty free pattern by Art Gallery Fabrics. Pattern The pattern is called Serpentine Pot Holders and it's generously been shared for free by Art Gallery Fabrics. The technique used is foundation paper piecing. Our Fabric Palette The fabrics from our shop, in ... View Post
Advent Calendar Day 9 – A Christmas Thread Palette
Window 9 opens a collection of new products in the shop, essential to everyone who sews: thread! I'll keep it short but definitely sweet today as all remaining orders of the year seem to arrive at the same time, so without further ado: Sentti & Tuuma proudly sells high-quality Aurifil threads from now on. There's more to come in the webshop, but I've assembled a palette of three 50wt ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 8 – Free Christmas Embroidery Patterns By DMC
Wonder what wonders window 8 will reveal? A collage of calm, fun and quirky embroidery patterns, all to download for free on the DMC website! Scroll down for links. Embroidery Patterns DMC is the manufacturer of various supplies for embroidery, but first became know as a maker of threads. The company is so old, founded in 1746 far earlier than the revolution that most of us don't even know ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 7 – A Fabric Bundle For Modern Christmas Craft Projects
What's behind a closed window 7 of our Advent Calendar? An ultra-modern fabric palette for your quilting, sewing and other fabric crafts this year! Fabrics The starting point for this refreshing palette of quilting cottons was the adorable Christmas forest Sparkling Forest in Green by Liberty Fabrics of Liberty London: Featured are, from above: Sparkling Forest in Green by ... View Post
2020 Advent Calendar Day 6 – A Snowflake
Happy Independence Day here in Finland (hyvää Itsenäisyyspäivää and trevlig Självständighetsdag) and also a blissful 2. Advent today! 6 December means opening a new window as well, so let's breeze straight to the cross-stitched snowflake I've made for you. Supplies To make a similar-sized project you’ll need: For the snowflake: Fabric: a small piece of linen – I used 28-count ... View Post