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.
Happy New Year, Happy New Year
Well here we are in 2021. I thought I hadn’t done much in 2020. It felt like time rushed by, while at the same time somehow crawled along all while nothing seemed to happen. Well apparently I was pretty busy. I made more clothes this year than previously. If you want to see everything I […]
Magical Clothing – put a twist on it
Clothes can be magic. They can make you feel a certain way. When you make your own the magic multiplies.
Relearning Knitting – the Arewa Sweater by Handmade by Kunbi
Exploring an old talent can revive your creativity and upgrade your skill level.
Let’s sew it for the boy: Forgetful travellers and the magic of sewing – Part 1
Overcoming the reluctance to sew for others can bring some great satisfaction.
DIY Masks for this Unprecedented Time of Our Lives
I’m sticking with a simplistic but compelling ‘a barrier is better than no barrier’ mantra.
The End is Nigh… or is it already all over?
Hello 2020, another year has ended and we start all over again. Some say its a new decade, me I’m a numerical sort of gal and I think its the beginning of the end. It’s now the time when we think about last year and consider what awaits us in this new year. Its the […]
Pattern Marriages – jumpsuit hack … again
Jumpsuit Fever is still in full flow, even though the brilliant Sew Together For Summer challenge and summer itself is now over. It was so much fun seeing all the entries from all over the world and I was inspired to enter five jumpsuits in the challenge. I had actually made six but one was […]
Not a bra but a swimsuit
When contemplating this perennial question Why do you sew? – This is why I sew.
Jumpsuit fever
Well didn’t we all going crazy for jumpsuits! Sewtogetherforsummer19 has really started something this year. More than 700 jumpsuits and I added 5 to that total. I’ve shared one, the Cherry jumpsuit from Mood Sewciety but that just whetted my appetite. Always one to ramp up the challenge level, I really wanted to do a […]
