Fabric – LaineeMakes

Sep 6, 2018Sep 2, 2018Clothing Fabric LaineeMakes Madebyme

The spoils of the sewing challenge

I finally made something using my gift from last years #sewtogetherforsummer challenge. I’m playing it safe but I have made a dress using my Tunic Bible, which was given to me by Sarah, Suzy and Monika last year. I’ve enjoyed reading the book through a couple of times last year when I won it and […]

Aug 26, 2018Sep 3, 2018Clothing Fabric LaineeMakes Sewing challenges stashbusting Uncategorized

Keeping a promise: I make something from my vintage #burdastyle magazine collection

At the beginning of the year, I committed to joining in the Burdastyle challenge at the prompt of Hila @saturdaynightstitch. Now we are already in the second half of the year I better do something about honouring my pledge. I have been nursing this piece of fabric in my stash for a long time, I […]

Oct 19, 2017Oct 19, 2017Challenging Clothing Fabric LaineeMakes Pattern drafting Pattern making Product testing sewing Sewing challenges

Evergreen: an adventure in colour and creating

A little while ago I blogged about drafting a dress from a photo I had seen in the Vogue Pattern book. I’ll show you here how I turned that pattern into a real-life dress. The original was a shift style dress in denim and I had intended to make a close copy in the traditional fabric […]

Aug 7, 2017Nov 3, 2018Clothing Destashing Fabric LaineeMakes sewing Sewing challenges Sewing saves UFOs

The Accidental Winner: why it pays to dig out those sewing UFOs.

Now meet my “Afterthought” dress, the late to the party dress, the slow-slow-slow game-winner. It’s months since I made her but only now got around to wearing and writing about it! I’m currently in a phase of craving instant gratification I see a new fabric or pattern and I want to sew it now, but […]