This post starts and ends with Burda. First I want to shout “I bought a Burda Magazine”!! I finally got the courage up to buy one. I know it’s only £4.75 but I’ve never seen more than one pattern in there to make it worth buying and the lack of seam allowance/crap instructions scared me …
This weekend has been a busy one. Friday night out for dinner. Saturday a day at York Races with dinner out. And today was car booting, sewing and cooking a feast. So yeah, mostly revolving around food! The Races was excellent. It was York’s annual racing + music weekend. I went with the family plus …
Oooh yeah feeling fruity again… I’m obviously referring to my berry sewing fest from last week. I was making New Look 6962 view D without the tie. I used my raspberry chiffon and am extremely happy with how it turned out. Sadly I didn’t get to wear it anywhere but my hallway as Sewing Sarah, my sewing class buddy, …
It’s nice to be surrounded by your hobby with good happy little reminders that make you smile and your eyes widen as you get a bit giddy. It’s kind of how I feel reading lovely people’s sewing blogs but other things trigger this too. Why the focus on this (probably obvious to everyone) obsession? Well …
After a super busy week (and a bit) I’m back in business with some sewing!! Firstly I’ll say Portugal was lovely and hot and relaxing. When I got back I went to my Little Fro’s second graduation! Super proud of him. He got a distinction don’tcha know. Look at him in his cap and gown, so dashing. …
“Oh… hey, remember this dress?” “Yeah! Wasn’t that the dress you finished month’s ago Amy?“ “Kind of. It was the one I rushed through like a demon just to get done only to see it start fraying before I’d even hemmed it.” “Bummer.” “Yeah but all is well now…. cos I unpicked it all and …