Weve been having great weather at last in the UK in the last 2 days. I went on a short trip to Bristol for work before the good weather started and so I spent the last couple of days sweltering in ti...
I now have a Lonsdale dress! Here are some pictures of the finished dress.Ive called it the French Riviera dress as it reminds me of something Brigitte Bardot might have worn in the sixties. I google...
Im so excited to have finished my Lonsdale muslin already. Heres a picture of how its looking so far.How lovely is the Lonsdale? Im a bit late to the party with this one. I bought t...
Ive now finished my Rooibos dress! Here are the pictures.I used the Rooibos pattern from Colette patterns. If you read my last post about the muslin you would have been expecting a wh...
At last! Just when I thought all my projects would be prefaced with fitting nightmares along comes a pattern thats a relative breeze. Heres the Rooibos muslin.The pattern needs no introduction b...
This skirts been a bit like the Forth Bridge in its making. Im not sure why its taken nearly a month to do. There was a slight mishap along the way, as explained here but mainly a lined pencil s...
If I wasnt such a ditz I would have a finished object to show you by now that would look something like this.I thought a pencil skirt would be easy but this thing has taken me ages. Ive no idea...
Ive now finished my second version of the Renfrew top from Sewaholic patterns. Here are the pictures:I used a polyester and elastane (around 5%) knit in a petrol blue. I used the same pattern pi...
I have now been sewing as a hobby for around 18 months since I re-discovered my sewing machine in August 2010. The journey from pincushion to Macaron has been filled with learning, sewing, buying fab...
Ive finished my first Renfrew top from Sewaholic Patterns. After the epic that was my Macaron dress it was nice to have something straightforward to sew. A bit of a cliché but so true espe...
I now have the Burdastyle sewing handbook! This is all the more special because I won it in the Burdastyle Day 29 giveaway! The question was about sewing plans for the new year. I said I w...
Exciting news – I now have a Colette Macaron dress! My first Colette make and possibly my favourite Colette pattern along with the Beignet skirt. I love this pattern and the dress despite having...
My chap went to an auction before Christmas and bid on a lot he thought I might be interested in. Interested? I was beside myself when he placed this on the living room floor:He bought it for the sel...
Happy new year everyone. I cant believe how quickly the holidays have gone. Its back to work tomorrow and back to reality! Its likely to be Easter before I have any more time off. Yikes!I manag...
I had intended to do a round up / review type post on Saturday but Ive been so busy doing nothing very much really apart from relaxing, sewing and enjoying the big day itself. I hope youve had a wond...
It was supposed to be a top this time as Ive been making loads of skirts recently. Unfortunately I abandoned the top I was making at the muslin stage (more on that another time). My gai...
Ive finished my first ever knitted scarf and in fact my first knitted anything since about 1983! Here it is:Its taken a long time. As I mentioned in this post in April I was inspire...
I tried to make a plain black skirt but its hard when there are piping techniques to try out. The result is a black skirt with a little bit of bling. Here is my third make of the Miss Chalmers Skirt ...
Ive got a few things to cover today so this post may go on for a bit. Thank you again to Ginger Makes for tagging me for the Versatile Blogger award. My first award - how exciting! A chall...
Ive just finished my second make of the Miss Chalmers skirt from Papercut patterns. Here are the photos.As with my first make of this skirt in denim I added slash pockets and a welt ...
I dont usually buy magazines. Maybe the odd Burda or celebrity gossip magazine if I have a long train journey. I just had to buy this months Womans Weekly though. Its their centenar...
The Eurozone may be staring into the abyss at the moment but the sewing goes on. Heres my second make of the hoody top from Papercut patterns.Heres my first version in red. I used my adjusted ...
Some may acquire fame overnight. When I worked in London some used to say their salary doubled overnight. I acquired an out of control fabric stash overnight.I was happy trundling by with...
The character from South Park came to mind when I finished my latest project. Here are the pictures.I used the hoody top pattern from Papercut patterns. I havent owned a hoody top for ar...
Time to update my progress on My Fabric Friday for October. This is where I wear at least one hand stitched item to work on dress down Friday which happens once a month. I have no photog...
Heres a quick and easy project Ive finished. This is my third make of this pattern, after my "I Am Sailing" top here and my "Take Two" top here. I used pattern 1...
As I mentioned in my Blue Denim Miss Chalmers Skirt post here I used a couple of techniques that turned out brilliantly for me. I thought I would chat about them a bit more here so that I ...
Ive just discovered Bloglovin. Ive havent got much idea how it works at the moment but it looks interesting. Ill be sure to have a play around. Im claiming my blog with this post....
My blog name implies having more than one handmade denim skirt. Before Trading Standards shut me down for having a misleading blog name I thought I would make another one. Not too much of...
Ive been off work for the last couple of weeks. As well as lots of fun stuff like days out and sewing I had a major clear out. I found something that reminded me of a conversation a ...
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