It’s finally the #sewrecreatethelook challenge reveal day! The goal is to recreate a look that you admire from RTW, the catwalk, Pinterest, a magazine, etc and share your progress. I’ve technically had my dress finished a couple of weeks but managed to hold off on revealing it. I’ve just been enjoying wearing it in the …
Well hello! May is upon us. And for everyone in Europe we had a bank holiday to kick things off too! I managed four out of five days in me-mades this week. I had agreed with myself a goal of six out of seven days in each week but hey, this was a short week! …
I’ve written this blog post about five times now. I’m both scared and excited to think about what 2013 will bring and my brain is racing at a mile a minute. Unavoidable changes are heading my way and I’m trying to figure out how to roll with them. I’m not going to start waffling on …
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 …
When I first started sewing I thought it would be the perfect way to indulge my addiction to dresses. Somewhere along the way I ended up making a lot of tops, a few dresses and not much else! So where did all the dresses go? And all the other plans I had?! This revelation struck …
I said I’d be back and I AM! I have been pottering away with a couple of projects. One which will soon be posted as a tutorial. I won’t go into the drama of Sunday and my time spent watching paramedics scamper round my boyfriend but I will say he’s all fine now. Phew! Recently …