Holy Moly! What a weekend! I’m aching all over but I am busy typing up a summary of the awesome Minerva Crafts meet up event, ready for you later this week. Now for something quite different. This is the Berthe shirt from Republique du Chiffon. It’s my third version of the shirt but my first blogged one. Here …
Shopping list as long as my arm
As I think you’ll be well aware, for the MC blogger team’s June garments we are all making fancy frocks in celebration of the Minerva Crafts Meet-Up event Saturday 14th aka TOMORROW!! We’re going to have a little blogger celebration after the day for the awesome awards the Network has won. There’s a whole day of fun that’s …
Daisy Chains and Ribbon Ties
Ooh this is so exciting! I’m able to show you the finished dress from the John Lewis sewing bee that I talked about in my last post. So let’s recap, on the day I picked a beautiful fabric called “Daisy Chain” which has yellow, white and blue daisies and white tulips in garlands. And this AKO …
The John Lewis Sewing Bee – with Lisa Comfort
What a happy thing to be writing about. As I mentioned in my previous post, this past Saturday I was very happy to help celebrate 150 years of John Lewis with Lisa Comfort and some awesome sewing bloggers. Left to right: Freia (who assisted Lisa during the day), Lisa, Fiona, Elena, Clare, Charlie, Roisin, Me and Emmie. We held …
Maya zvezdochka dress
First off I have to say I had the most amazing day on Saturday. I was helping celebrate 150 years of John Lewis with Lisa Comfort and some awesome sewing bloggers. It’s going to take a whole post, possibly two, to do it justice! That’ll be my next post. But today we took a little walk near …
Fabric covered belt – The Highlights
Hello everyone! Thank you for your comments on my recent post. I wore the dress to a wedding this weekend and confirm after a few hours on the dancefloor that it has excellent swishy movement! During my post, I promised to talk a little more about my fabric covered belt. I used a quick and easy method …