Ohhh Donna! Coming back to my main pattern squeeze.

By LaineeMakes

Sewing Vogue 2512 In my previous sewing existence I amassed a lot of patterns which I have yet to sew. Many of these are Donna Karan which I imagined myself swanning around in. I keep having conversations with myself about why I have not made any of these patterns and why I’m keeping them. Most […]

Sewing bookworm – It’s habit forming

By LaineeMakes

At the risk of sounding repetitive, I love this book, Breaking the Pattern. I set a slightly tongue in cheek challenge to myself as I designated one square of my #makenine2019 to “Everything in the Breaking the Pattern book”. with the possible exception of the the tote, and the Utu pinafore as it felt a […]

The spoils of the sewing challenge

By LaineeMakes

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 […]

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

By LaineeMakes

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 […]

Evergreen: an adventure in colour and creating

By LaineeMakes

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 […]

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

By LaineeMakes

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 […]