How many of you have heard of Ladybird Likes? I hope you all raised your hands. Or immediately clicked through to see the gorgeousness on offer in the shop. I’m in a pretty good mood. I had a wonderful birthday with great gifts, food and friends. And it’s about to be a bank holiday in …
Hello Everyone! I hope you’re having a lovely weekend. Mine has been full of good food and drink, library books and some sewing. A Raspberry beret for the lady, two red stripe for the gent. New Look 6886 bodice awaiting skirt attachment. The velvet photograph cover of Daniel Vosovic’s lovely book Final touches to my …
I’m so happy to be announcing this giveaway. I was amazed at the number of entries, 53 in total! And there is a good variety of ways people are following. It was selfish of me but I really wanted to know which platforms my blog is mostly being viewed on, and now I do! Without …
Last week I showed you a dress I hadn’t blogged about but it went down quite well so I here are the details. I wanted to make the Colette Truffle bodice into my go-to dress bodice block as it was so close to being perfect on my Christmas party dress. I made a rub off …
That’s right, one year ago today I started blogging! It’s gone soooo quickly. I started so I could post about my participation in Me-Made-May. I barely had anything to wear and I was still figuring out how to manage a blog. I was pretty sure no one out there was reading. But here I am, …
First up my giveaway! Let’s announce this bad boy. Random number generator has chosen….. Congratulations!! Send your postal address to me at almondrock.wordpress@gmail.com and I’ll arrange delivery. Moving on. My love affair with New Look 6808 continues. I cooked up the idea of adapting it to use buttons at the back quite a while ago …