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 […]
Simplicity blogger competition
I love seeing what other sewers have on their sewing table and being allowed a sneak preview into ‘work in progress’ shots, not just the finished articles. I therefore thought I would quickly share what my next make will be – a kind of before and after perspective! I am planning on entering the Simplicity star sewist competition, […]
Medieval banquet anyone? Burda 7468
Those of you who have read my inaugural blog post about my Delphine skirt (if you haven’t then check it out here) will have read that I was planning to blog about some of my favourite makes since I started sewing just over a year ago. Well this is one of them….my Medieval dress. I […]
A yoke top – but not in time for Easter!
This yoke top, designed by Lauren Guthrie has been on my ‘to-do’ list since seeing it in Issue 5 of Love Sewing magazine in September last year. I wanted to wait until the Spring to make it and as the post title implies, I finished it recently, just after the Easter weekend. Just in time for this lovely weather we are were […]
A Delphine, Brigette and upside down birds!!
For my first few blog posts I have decided to share some of my most recent makes – hoping that they are still fresh enough in my memory that I can remember the details! I then hope to look back over my year of sewing and pick a few projects to share that make me smile! A couple of them […]