As I read everyone’s reflections of the sewing year I notice excellent throughput and similar tales of joy and woe. Now I want a go!!! Here are my hits, misses, reflections, inspirations and goals! 5 hits 1. The knockoff Elsie dress 2. New Look 6808 FINALLY 3. Little Green UFO 4. Slippy shiny slinky fake …
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…. …
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 …
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 …
**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 …
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, …