A few weeks ago, I got an email that made me run around the kitchen with excitement, mid tea-making. It was from Our Patterned Hand, an East London fabric shop, asking if I’d like to come and c...
Thanks to everyone who responded to my last screed on blogging and narcissicm, all the comments were so interesting and insightful. I started this site because I wanted somewhere to rant on in tediou...
Thoughts on blogging Karen’s recent-ish post made me think a bit about blogging, and why we do it. To me, blogging is unavoidably a narcissistic activity – broadcasting your activities to...
I had to blog about this amazing exhibition because it ends on Sunday! Hurry hurry hurry to the Hayward Gallery to see ‘Joy in People’ by Jeremy Deller, the best thing I’ve seen in ...
Summer’s here guys! I made a new dress to celebrate. Here I am enjoying the sunshine on my balcony. Oh alright. This is me pretending there isn’t a biblical downpour going on around me. T...
I wear a lot of skirts. But somehow I hardly ever sew them, which creates a problem. I did have a try with my blue pencil number, but it’s a bit too formal for everyday wear. With Me-Made-May c...
One of the things I like about walking along the canal (where I took my Scout tee pictures) is all the colour you can see. I spotted my favourite thing on the boat below: lovely rusty old flaky paint...
I saved this special exhibit at the V&A for a separate post, because it’s just so captivating and crazy. This is a cape woven and embroidered entirely from spider silk. The silk from over 1...
I made a new top! It’s a t-shirt pattern designed for woven fabric, from grainline studios. Here’s the details: Pattern: Scout woven tee from grainline studios, which you can buy here Mat...
Are you doing Me-Made-May this year? I’m really looking forward to it. I think it’ll be a great way to identify all the gaps in my hand-sewn wardrobe (at the moment there’s too much...
I’m not exactly the world’s most ardent monarchist, but there’s one aspect of the Royal Family I will always have a soft spot for. The Queen’s outfits! The Queen was working t...
So last weekend I went to see the new show at the V&A – British Design, 1948-2012. This exhibition definitely wins on the ‘oohs per square inch’ factor. Everywhere you look ther...
SPRING IS HERE! Spring is my favourite time of year. I am an obsessive tree-watcher and get over-excited when I see little green buds appearing on the dead winter twigs. Every day I’ve been cyc...
So, speediness is not what you come to this blog for. It’s taken me just over six months between talking about sewing blouses and actually sewing one. What can I say, I’m a tortoise, not ...
It’s taken me a week to write about this, but the Craftaganza market last week was really fun! It was held in a beautiful building, an old church. I used to walk past it when I was a student at...
Well, it’s been a bit quiet here lately. I have been doing some sewing but generally I’ve either been doing temp work or applying for jobs, fun activities I’m sure you’ll agre...
I’m totally obsessed with birds at the moment. Or more specifically, tropical birds. They’re just so colourful and bright and hilarious-looking, like a big joke that nature is playing on ...
I love this super-bright zig zag fabric print. It’s so colourful! It’s a cotton velveteen designed by Anna Maria Horner, which you can now buy in the UK from a new online craft shop calle...
It’s a great leveller, clothing. Young or old, rich or poor, lover or hater of fashion, you have to buy and wear clothes. It’s actually illegal not to. But who knows where our clothes com...
Here’s my second Jasmine blouse, from Colette Patterns. The first one has already gone to the charity shop. I foolishly made it out of some extremely cheap floral polyester which had all the dr...
Have you ever used a digital fabric printing service? A friend of mine is in the early stages of launching a UK based fabric printing service, which will be aimed at home-sewers. This idea has got me...
Thank you to the lovely ladies Handmade Jane and Laura from Purl About Town, who were both kind enough to nominate me for a blog award. I’m not super familiar with the whole blog award concept,...
Last weekend, it really felt like spring had begun early. I was in Bournemouth and there were people on the beach wearing shorts and t-shirts (very foolish people, but there none the less). I also sa...
Is there anything better than watching other people walk their dogs? All the fun of a cute puppy without the muddy paws, trips to the vet, and massive food bills. Our local park is my favourite plac...
I have been sewing! It’s true, even if you wouldn’t be able to guess it from reading this blog. I’ve just been too busy writing endless job applications, attempting to get our boile...
As it’s the coldest week of the year, of course the boiler has spent three days making scary rattling noises before expiring completely. Until it gets fixed, it seems practical to spend a lot o...
I started buying Burda magazines in 2008, when I discovered a local newsagent stocked them. (I’m not telling you which one in case somebody else nips down there and takes my copy. Don’t e...
This weekend I went to Brighton for a meet-up and swap organised by Zoe and Claire. I was a little nervous about meeting lots of strangers from the internet (as your gran would say) but it was totall...
Here are some of my current favourite internet-y things: - I’m not really a Tumblr fan (I just…don’t get it) but I have to admit that it’s the only way to go for single-topic ...
Here is a new hat I have knitted, modelled by my charming assistant. And here is a vintage tea cosy pattern. I have knitted the evocatively named 'Model B' Notice any family resemblance? He...
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