Cosy Creations by Phoebe

Cosy Creations by Phoebe Welcome to Cosy Creations. Let's spread the joy of handmade goodness together!

We're a small craft business specialising in knitted, crochet and personalised items that are perfect for adding a cosy touch to your wardrobe or home or gifting to loved ones.

Rag rug part 2 of the series.The next part of the make was to start cutting the pre-prepared T-shirts into strips. The...
02/09/2026

Rag rug part 2 of the series.

The next part of the make was to start cutting the pre-prepared T-shirts into strips. Then into pieces for latch hooking into the hessian backing.

There was consensus on utube videos for the most suitable length 3 inches (7.5cms) but little advice about the width. One video suggested that the width should depend on the weight or thickness of the material used. This appeared to make sense to us.

We decided to go with 4 inches (10cms) lengths as the utube suggestions looked a bit short for what we wanted, and 1.4 inches (3.5cms) wide.

We used our yardstick to measure the strips drawing lines with tailors chalk, right across the T-shirt pieces. The stips were cut out and then snipped down to the 4 inch 10cms pieces. Take care to keep the edges of your strips straight.

This part of the make is extremely time consuming. It's a good idea to do little and often rather than keeping going for long periods.

Rag rug post part 1We shall number the posts for the rag rug make, especially for any one who may want to try this for t...
31/08/2026

Rag rug post part 1

We shall number the posts for the rag rug make, especially for any one who may want to try this for themselves. That way if you miss a post you can go back and have look.

Before starting we prepared the hessian (in our case a recycled coffee sack) by turning under a generous hem allowance of at least an inch (3:5cms). Rather than sewing it under we have masking taped it down. We are hoping that this will allow us to remove the tape later (when the rug is complete) and then turn under and sew in place. Leaving a neat edge.

We drew a simple geometric design with permanent maker pen.

As we are using old T-shirts for our rags we decided it would be a good idea to cut out the seams and collars so that there was a even thickness of material throughout.

Keep following along for more posts in the series.

Sorry everyone there's not been much crafting done this week but Mum did get to the local crafting destash event today.T...
29/08/2026

Sorry everyone there's not been much crafting done this week but Mum did get to the local crafting destash event today.

There was lots of lovely things on offer but Mum restricted herself to some embroidery threads.

Buying this little lot gave her a saving of £27.20 on the retail price.

25/08/2026

Pure nostalgia

23/08/2026

Sunday morning task.

Just bottled up the damson butter smells and tastes delicious. Made from fresh damsons brought yesterday at Brigg Farmer's Market.

It's good on toast as a sweet treat and great with cheese as a sweet and savoury alternative to chutney or pickles. This batch has sweet cinnamon, all spice and a little bit of mace in it.

Lincolnshire market towns. We have a number of followers from far away places now. So we thought we should share some of...
22/08/2026

Lincolnshire market towns. We have a number of followers from far away places now. So we thought we should share some of our wonderful local area with you.

Had a little trip out today at Brigg farmers market. Lots of lovely Lincolnshire produce on sale anything from cheese, baked goods, butchers, honey, flowers and Lincolnshire Longwool products (and much more)

Took a few pics to show you how picturesque the town is with the river running through it. There's also a couple of pictures of the goodies we brought. The damsons are too make some delicious damson butter.

The greater Lincolnshire area has lots of lovely market towns and alot also still run their own market days.

We have taken the Lincolnshire Longwools stalls details and will be contacting them next week to see if we can make some purchases. The lady from Wolds Wool doesn't have a fb page so I can't tag her into this post.

Brigg farmers market is on every 4th Saturday of the month.


Mum's drawn out her rag rug design today, using one of the coffee sacks she recently bought. She recently went through h...
21/08/2026

Mum's drawn out her rag rug design today, using one of the coffee sacks she recently bought.

She recently went through her wardrobe clearing out things that were unlikely to be worn again. Luckily she hadn't had time to take them off to the local recycling centre.

They will now be recycled at home to make a cosy rug for her kitchen.

It make take a while as it is going to be quite large.

Rebranding?! I've never been completely happy with our logo, while I haven't had much time for making I thought it would...
20/08/2026

Rebranding?!
I've never been completely happy with our logo, while I haven't had much time for making I thought it would be the perfect time to have a play around and design something that works better for us and our customers.
We are still in the design stage and your imput is always appreciated.

19/08/2026

Gales fleece :

We have been buying some fleeces with the intention of Mum learning how to spin.

Spinning was part of her course session with Pocket House Studio on Lewis

The rug she made whilst she was at the studio had Herdwick in it and Mum was keen to find some for her first try at spinning. That proved a bit difficult until Helen from Castle Peak Views & Fferm Gelli Dywyll in Gwynedd Wales came to the rescue.

Mum brought two fleeces from Helen, one pure breed Herdwick and one cross-breed which is Gales fleece. Gale is a Herdwick Llyn cross. She was aptly named after being born backwards in a gale in 2022. Helen says she's a really special sheep and always produces a beautiful fleece.

Mum's really looking forward to getting started with these fleeces. It won't be for a few weeks yet, in the meantime they are safely stored in pillow cases.

More dyeing with natural materials and a strange result.Last week we used rose stem trimmings this week we tried oak bar...
18/08/2026

More dyeing with natural materials and a strange result.

Last week we used rose stem trimmings this week we tried oak bark.

We are complete newbies to this and in our heads we imagined that the oak bark would give us a deeper richer brown shade. The water in the dye pot looks darker so we were quite excited.

As it turns out we didn't get what we expected. In fact you can hardly tell them apart. If anything the oak bark is ever so slightly lighter than the rose.

As we currently have no reference points the experimenting will continue and we will learn as we do more. We did use the same wool and the same method as previously.

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