Our Gift to you! Tutorials

Tutorials and Photo Essays by Anja

This page will have a number of wildly varied photo-essay tutorials put up on it at various times. I think, due to space, that most of them will go up in PDF form. Click the links, not the pix! Look on these as my gift to you and please preserve the copyright notices and contact information.

Doll Pinafore – A few of our Spoonflower designs need assembly and sewing instructions. This is the first one of these, and is still under construction as the fabrics go up for sale. Pictures and sketches will be added as this task progresses. https://ancientlightshop.wordpress.com/photo-essays/doll-pinafore-instructions/

Lavendar with purple fabrics

Herbal Sachets! Learn how to stitch these simple sachets for gifts or for yourself! – https://ancientlightshop.wordpress.com/photo-essays/making-herbal-sachets/

Wood Butter! A completely edible product for refinishing salad bowls, knife handles, anything made of wood!  – https://ancientlightshop.wordpress.com/our-gift-to-you-tutorials/wood-butter/

Wooden Spoons! – https://ancientlightshop.wordpress.com/our-gift-to-you-tutorials/wooden-spoons/

Make your own Extracts! Vanilla extract gets expensive, but it doesn’t have to be! –

Click here for PDF! Tutorial – Homemade Extracts

Bundling Herbs for Drying –

Click here for PDF!  Bundling Herbs for Drying  – Includes how to tie square and surgeon knots.

The Nostalgia Book Ornaments – 

 Yule Gift 2012 book ornaments

The 8-Sided Biscornu (read the text to see what it is!) – 

Making an 8sided Biscornu

Chive Blossom Oil (redux) – Making Chive Blossom Oil 2013

Making lavendar wands! – https://wp.me/P2xgQ8-amH

Copyrights as noted. Permission is given for personal and educational use, but please leave the copyright notice in each intact. For permission for other uses and citations (almost always granted) please contact anjasnihova@yahoo.com . All pictures and writing are the property of Anja Bartlett (MaryAnne Bues Bartlett). I *will* prosecute!

Last update 7/24/20