Esme and mia have requested capes and i did find a cute kids cape in a Burda Style magazine but it didn't seem right, it was lined, it didn't have a hood, it had welt slits for the arms, cu...
I've been sewing up a storm recently, i just keep forgetting to take photos. I pretty much spent from Saturday night to Tuesday night sewing, i've been sewing late into the night on Saturda...
After my last post i carried this knitting project around in my bag without really doing much work on it until last weekend when i decided to get it finished before heading back to work. So, i knit k...
The weather seems to have suddenly changed this past week. We have rain and it's chilly, just the right kind of weather to be sitting on the sofa watching movies and knitting. I've been wor...
Last Sunday we visited Brianna in her new studio.... Jealous much?! I certainly am. She set the girls to work knitting their own mittens on the machine... Heidi needed a little help and Mia ga...
Life has been a little busy lately, so busy that i've had little time to fit in any sewing. The Easter weekend fixed that though, i spent all of Good Friday and most of Easter Saturday and Sund...
BIRTHDAY DRESS From: Handmade For Children. see previous projects here, here and here (oh how much she has changed! sob! I don't ever want her to grow up.)Fabrics: Spaced Out Snow and Mandarin Z...
I'm a wee bit late in showing you this. Last year i was asked to participate in BurdaStyle's first book, now if you've been reading here for a while you'll know that i worked wit...
After a busy morning of rearranging and cleaning messy bedrooms i sat myself of the sofa with a coffee and an apple strudel scone to have a browse through my blog reader. I checked out Jorth who is ...
Time flies doesn't it? I hadn't really taken much notice about how long it had been since my last post because i've been so busy, i've been working, kid wrangling, friend visitin...
I've started something new.....head over here to find out more.
This weekend i tried out the Dress Me Up collar pattern from The Makers Journal. Its fantastic for using up scraps from other projects, i always have pieces that are too small to do much with y...
Same pattern as this one in a beautiful purple/blue seersucker Japanese cotton (from Tessuti) which i've had stashed away for a while. I had actually cut this out not long after making the last...
I must have been nice last year because this book was in my stocking on Christmas morning! If you read regularly you will have noticed i've made a number of garments from the other Drape Drape ...
I ride my bike to the station each day and ive notied how ive been discarding clothes from my outfits because theyre not suitable for bike riding, in particular skirts. A few weeks ago i got my...
I think i've mentioned before that Esme has shot up recently to be almost the same height as her big sister (between you and me i think she'll be taller pretty soon). As a result the poor ...
For some time now i've thought about sewing a jumpsuit but it's one of those garments that could look great or really really terrible. When i organised my pattern stash recently i came acr...
In the week before Christmas i was rather taken with the bag of a customer (Karen) at work. My eyes followed her around the shop trying to get a better look at it. I've been hankering for a ne...
This is the day we all reflect on the year that was, get excited about the year to come and make goals and resolutions. 2011 was a pretty good year for me, uneventful but nothing much to complain ab...
I've made this dress a couple of times. I discovered it works best with a slinky jersey, the first one i made doesn't drape as nicely as the second. When Trish passed on a remnant of Funky...
Details Fabric: lace-Ivory Nostalgia' 100% nylon lining -Mustard organic cotton jersey both from Tessuti Fabrics Pattern: Again, like the dress in my last post i cut this pattern free...
A 40cm remnant of an Armani jersey (Water Snake) set me off on one of my 'I wonder what i could make with this' thoughts. Why *another dress of course! I played around with the remnant and...
Oops! I've been away from this little space longer than i thought. I have been busy working, sewing (of course), getting ready for Christmas (it's next week?!!), researching and planning i...
Remember this secret project? Well it's safe to show you now that it has arrived safely in the UK. This is the 3rd New York Cape i have made and this one is a birthday gift for my lovely Mam. I...
December is such a busy time for everyone so this year we had an early Christmas party...at Longrain! Of course the past few weeks have been all about sewing a party frock for the occasion and this i...
DETAILS Pattern- dress I from Happy Homemade vol.5 Fabric- Liberty's Edenham I made the largest size (130). I had made the shorts from this book in the same size for her and they just fit so th...
Last Thursday this girl became a six year old. She seems to have grown up so much in the last few months. Her appearance has changed (she's lost some of the little girl chubbiness in her face),...
I'm still here...busily working away on life. Spring is awakening an itch, an itch to get things done and it's itching bad. There always seems to be so much to do around this time of year...
Esme in particular has been in need of new tops. T-shirts are always comfortable and pretty quick to sew on the overlocker so after a flick through some pattern books i decided on pattern 'a�...
DETAILS Pattern: Size 4, version C, vintage Simplicity 9790 (1982) Fabric: Scraps from the stash. And i mean scraps! For: Heidi Quick and easy to sew on the overlocker. I could have made the neck ...
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