Peppermint Magazine - Issue 65

Love more: Cover artist Chilu shares a colourful message of kindness, empathy and hope.
The courage of optimism: The Right Honourable Dame Jacinda Ardern on empathy, leadership and choosing hope.
Earthly pleasures: 27 wonderful humans celebrate the things that bring them joy in the offline world.
Mehrnush Songhori embroiders stories of activism, displacement and belonging.
Samorn Sanixay discovers the hidden hues of Australia’s eucalypts.
Artist Rosalie Gascoigne finds extraordinary beauty in the everyday.
Yolandi Vermaak on the extraordinary work of rescuing wombats.
Rags to riches: Meet the innovators finding new futures for discarded textiles.
Go backstage at the Darwin Aboriginal Art Fair.
Craft Club’s Nakisah Williams has something to say about who gets to be creative.
DIY: Nakisah teaches us to make embroidered flowers.
Maaike Baudry on making clothes and building community with Maaidesign.
How Dangerous Females is turning T-shirts into action.
Four businesses working for purpose, profit, people and planet.
Feminism, fabulous finds and the Queen Victoria Women’s Centre Shop.
Sew romantic: Meet Silversaga and its sweet silhouettes.
DIY: Make your own beautiful Blossom Footstool.
Sustainable stays: Feel-good places to rest your head and tread a little lighter.
Last hurrah: The Peppermint team shares what we’d tell our 18-year-old selves.

Meet the Bloom Dress and Top pattern! This delightfully dreamy smock-style design comes as a dress or top, mid-length sleeves with a keyhole-and-tie detail or long sleeves gathered into a fixed cuff and three dress lengths. Created with support from our friends at Rare Patterns Boutique Fabrics, Bloom celebrates the joy of making something entirely your own. Receive the Bloom Dress and Top digital sewing pattern for FREE with the printed issue of 65 (valid until 28 February 2027)!

We’ve also got a fun DIY project for you: the Blossom Footstool. Big enough to be useful and to harbour a bounty of scraps, but small enough to be a relatively quick-sew project, this flower-shaped footstool is the perfect way to use up the bits and pieces in your sewing room. Blossom delivers the trifecta: a creative project, a home for your fabric scraps and the embodiment of rest and relaxation.

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