Well I knew as soon as I had made my first Bettine dress by Tilly and the Buttons that it would not be long before I made my second as I loved it so much. You can see and read about my first Bettine here. Not only is it a lot easier to make a […]
My kind of dress…Tilly and the Button’s Bettine.
After nearly a year since I sewed anything jersey, the onset of Autumn really brought a sense of a need to sew with jersey again! My 2 previous stretch projects were from Tilly and the Button’s Coco pattern – 1 top and 1 dress; both of which I love. The release of Tilly & the Button’s Agnes pattern […]
Tilly and the button’s Megan dress – bring on the toile
I finished this make back in the summer but life has been a bit busy over the last couple of months so this blog post has been a little while in the making! If it’s left a while it then becomes harder to remember all of the details! Well let’s see what I can do, here goes…. […]
The Simplicity Blog meet up with star guest May Martin
Last week I had the amazing opportunity to attend the first Simplicity bloggers meet up held in London at the Good Housekeeping Institute Dining Room. Having seen the event advertised on Twitter, I jumped at the chance to meet May Martin, the highly experienced textile tutor and judge on the BBC series The Great British […]
1930’s Great British Sewing Bee Vintage blouse
As I wait for the opportunity to take some photos of a recent make I thought I would look back as this vintage blouse I made in November last year. It is the 1930s blouse from the second Great British Sewing Bee book, ‘Sew your own wardrobe’. I loved the look of this blouse when I saw […]
A Girly Clémence skirt
Time for another project from Tilly and the Buttons’ brilliant book Love at First Stitch. Last year I made 2 summer skirts which were both an A-line style (New Look 6843- nice and easy btw). Time for something different! The Clémence skirt has a wide waistband and a gathered waistline and here it is… […]
Simplicity Blogger Challenge – The results!
If you follow my blog you may well have read about my recent entry to this year’s Simplicity Star Sewist competition. If you know me quite well then you will have definitely heard about it – more than once!! If not, the initial background to the competition and preview of my make can be seen here and more […]
A little bit of vintage – Simplicity 1692
I want to share with you a vintage blouse I made back in February this year. The project was started on a dressmaking workshop I attended at John Lewis in Bristol called Dressmaking to fit. It was a Rowan workshop run by Avril Best. As the name suggested the workshop was predominantly all about how […]
A quick make for summer – The GBSB Sleeveless shell top
In order to boost my selection of summer tops, I have made the Sleeveless shell top from the most recent Great British Sewing Bee book – ‘Fashion with fabric’ by Claire-Louise Hardie. I was after a fairly straight forward project that I could fit in amongst a couple of other things I had on the […]
Simplicity star sewist blogger competition – new look 6145
As the clock ticks closer to the deadline of the competition, I present my entry to the ‘Simplicity Star Sewist’ competition. Nothing like last minute hey?! Details of the competition can be found here. When I first saw the competition advertised a few months ago I saw that it is only open to bloggers. At that […]