This post starts and ends with Burda. First I want to shout “I bought a Burda Magazine”!! I finally got the courage up to buy one. I know it’s only £4.75 but I’ve never seen more than one pattern in there to make it worth buying and the lack of seam allowance/crap instructions scared me …
Raaaaaaaaaaaarrgh: “There’s a dinosaur loose in downtown Manhattan!!”
This weekend has been a busy one. Friday night out for dinner. Saturday a day at York Races with dinner out. And today was car booting, sewing and cooking a feast. So yeah, mostly revolving around food! The Races was excellent. It was York’s annual racing + music weekend. I went with the family plus …
Feeling fruity and a review of New Look 6962
Oooh yeah feeling fruity again… I’m obviously referring to my berry sewing fest from last week. I was making New Look 6962 view D without the tie. I used my raspberry chiffon and am extremely happy with how it turned out. Sadly I didn’t get to wear it anywhere but my hallway as Sewing Sarah, my sewing class buddy, …
Surrounded by sewing
It’s nice to be surrounded by your hobby with good happy little reminders that make you smile and your eyes widen as you get a bit giddy. It’s kind of how I feel reading lovely people’s sewing blogs but other things trigger this too. Why the focus on this (probably obvious to everyone) obsession? Well …
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No it’s a UFO!!
“Oh… hey, remember this dress?” “Yeah! Wasn’t that the dress you finished month’s ago Amy?“ “Kind of. It was the one I rushed through like a demon just to get done only to see it start fraying before I’d even hemmed it.” “Bummer.” “Yeah but all is well now…. cos I unpicked it all and …
Three reasons to smile this week…..
It’s been a looooong week. Feels like a month! I’ve been so busy at work that I’ve been getting home late and sleepy most days. And then being all run down lead to another cold! Very unfair if you ask me. There have been some highlights though…. High on the list is getting some awesome …