Be warned for some serious sequin action….!! Well it is Strictly season after all! It was never a serious intention of mine to make a Christmas dress. Why would I do that to myself at this time of year?! So many things to think about and dedicate time to, the addition of something that wasn’t absolutely […]
Love Sewing tartan skirt and SewBrum round up
When I saw the tartan skirt in Issue 9 of Love Sewing magazine I knew I would have to make it some time as is just the sort of skirt I like. I love skirts, tights and boots in the winter but missed the opportunity when the original issue was published so this Autumn it […]
Bettine dress No. 2!
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 […]
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…. […]
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… […]
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 […]
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 […]