The New Year has started but there is still time to post my reflections and inspirations. This one is a biggie I’m afraid! Reflections In the past year I’ve definitely grown as a sewist and a blogger: I have learnt a lot of smart new techniques and tips, creating some wardrobe favourites, challenged myself to …
Little Black Jacket part 3 – day 1
This is part 3 of my mini series on the Chanel jacket course I attended in March. See here for part 1 about inspiration and here for part 2 on materials! Today I’m sharing my progress from day 1 of the course. I packed up my machine, pattern, fabric, notions and a travel sewing kit …
Little Black Jacket part 2 – materials
This is second part of my mini series on the Chanel jacket course I am attending in March. See part 1 about inspiration here! Today is all about materials! The course is based around Vogue pattern V7975. (I’ve heard people rave about Vogue 8804 from the Claire Shaeffer Collection but believe its out of print …
Little Black Jacket part 1 – inspiration
This is the first post of a mini series that will cover my attempts at making a jacket. Gasp! horror! On March 23rd and 24th I will be attending a 2-day course on making a Chanel inspired jacket, hosted by the Yorkshire sewing school. And I’m rather nervous… well that’s putting it mildly. I’m chuffing …
Recap of 2012 (part one)
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 …
Sewing inspiration V8723
It’s not that I don’t have any original ideas but I like to see if other people have had better ideas. For example there is nothing unsensible with googling other people’s V8723 dresses. For instance Spatastic’s yellow version is cute but not my colour and it’s good to know where she had problems. Jorth’s spotty …