I’m very pleased to announce the winner of the Pattern Pyramid!! First I’d just like to say new people have commented on the blog which has thrilled me. And there was a great response from some familiar faces! So thanks everyone And now without further ado… Oanh! Congratulations you’re going to win all of this…. …
GIVEAWAY TIME – Pattern Pyramid is in Yorkshire!!
It started with the lovely Karen of Did You Make That? and 30 plus patterns (OMG) and it has travelled around the world, spreading sewing joy to the blogisphere. And thanks to a fluke of fate I won the pattern pyramid hosted by the delightful Rachel of House of Pinheiro. I have to confess I was a little scared when I heard I’d …
I BLOODY LOVE POLKA DOTS
Small ones, medium ones, giant ones. So it’s not surprising I bought 5 types of polka dot fabric at the Birmingham meet up! This is what I did with my three metres of black and white large polka dot satin fabric. First up I wanted to make a Colette Truffle dress. I made FOUR toiles trying …
Christmas Drawstring Present Sack*
**Insert rude pun here** I love a good rude pun. I’ve resisted the urge though as I don’t want you to think I’m peddling filth in my blog haha. Or worse attract the wrong sort of readers from bad Google searches! (If you want to gossip about any good ones via twitter please get in …
The Knitting and Stitching Show in Harrogate
Well you can all guess where I’ve been today! Thanks to a facebook competition from Fabrications I won a free ticket to the Knitting and Stitching Show. It was recently in London and Dublin and now in lovely Harrogate for the weekend. For those who don’t know the show covers knitting and stitching but way way more; felt-making, toy-making, shibori dyeing, jewellery-making, card-making, …
Truffle Progress
After the death of my plaid top I wanted to bounce back into action and work on my Colette Truffle dress. Super exciting as it’ll be my Xmas party dress yaaay!! I’m using a gorgeous black and white polka dot satin I got at the Birmingham meet up. The dots are so cute and large …