Finally I have put my fledgling couture skills to good use! My Mum’s couture cardigan is complete and it had its first outing this weekend. Some of you will remember that earlier this year I took a class with the Yorkshire School of Sewing to learn how to make Vogue 7975 using couture techniques and benefit …
I took a little sew-cation using my annual leave so I could work on my Anise and ended up doing barely anything on it! Instead I’ve mostly been working with my mum to make her a Chanel style tweed jacket. The jacket is coming along so well and really makes me glad I did the …
Yesterday I had the day off work to brush up on the fundamentals of sewing. When I started sewing I took a course of 10 evening classes that were a basic introduction to reading a commercial pattern and I failed to have a finished dress by the end of the course because everything was very …
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, …