This project involves a lot of ideas coming together hopefully into a good summer dress. I've been looking at the multitude of tiered dress patterns which have become available over the last few years and it's put me in a bit of a dilemma. On the face of it, I wouldn't have thought of myself… Continue reading Vogue V1618 – Rachel Comey dress hack
Category: Fabric
Three Easy Pieces – the cable textured Ponte saga part II
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Sometimes a fabric really grabs me. Sometimes they have it in lots of yummy colours. Sometimes I can't resist buying it. Originally, I had been looking at some autumnal golds and greens but these had sold out. Not to worry my eye fell on these berry shades and a pale… Continue reading Three Easy Pieces – the cable textured Ponte saga part II
Designin’ December Sheer Jeans Jacket
You know how it happens, you go on a pinning rampage and most of the things you pin never see the light of day ever again.
Sheer Magic – Sewing a sheer overcoat
What are your dream sewing projects? Have you got any sewing projects that you'd just love to create that you've never managed to realise? I always think of my craft as making dreams come true - #sewingdreams.
Ohhh Donna! Coming back to my main pattern squeeze.
I keep having conversations with myself about why I have not made any of these patterns and why I'm keeping them.
Sewing bookworm – It’s habit forming
Sade and Rae a couple of flighty pieces that were made for flouncing.
Finally! I made something for my man!
The pattern is very Nineties ... It gives me Miami Vice vibes
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… Continue reading The spoils of the sewing challenge
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… Continue reading Keeping a promise: I make something from my vintage #burdastyle magazine collection
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… Continue reading Evergreen: an adventure in colour and creating
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… Continue reading The Accidental Winner: why it pays to dig out those sewing UFOs.
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