Oooh happy news in Sewing Land! A new pattern company for us to drool over and patterns which can race to the top of our sewing queues. Capital Chic is a new, independent sewing pattern company based in London and offering work wear, cocktail wear and day-to-night looks. The designs have a wonderful modern, fashionable feel, …
Mollie Makes Blogging – A Review
We interrupt your football watching for some Mollie Makes news! Mollie Makes Blogging is pitched as the magazine to help create the blog you’ve always dreamed of. It’s a 180-page special edition priced at £9.99 and available in most major stores – WH Smith (where I found my copy), Tesco, Asda, etc or coming soon as …
Pink Parrots and Ugly Pelicans
Holy Moly! What a weekend! I’m aching all over but I am busy typing up a summary of the awesome Minerva Crafts meet up event, ready for you later this week. Now for something quite different. This is the Berthe shirt from Republique du Chiffon. It’s my third version of the shirt but my first blogged one. Here …
Shopping list as long as my arm
As I think you’ll be well aware, for the MC blogger team’s June garments we are all making fancy frocks in celebration of the Minerva Crafts Meet-Up event Saturday 14th aka TOMORROW!! We’re going to have a little blogger celebration after the day for the awesome awards the Network has won. There’s a whole day of fun that’s …
Daisy Chains and Ribbon Ties
Ooh this is so exciting! I’m able to show you the finished dress from the John Lewis sewing bee that I talked about in my last post. So let’s recap, on the day I picked a beautiful fabric called “Daisy Chain” which has yellow, white and blue daisies and white tulips in garlands. And this AKO …
The John Lewis Sewing Bee – with Lisa Comfort
What a happy thing to be writing about. As I mentioned in my previous post, this past Saturday I was very happy to help celebrate 150 years of John Lewis with Lisa Comfort and some awesome sewing bloggers. Left to right: Freia (who assisted Lisa during the day), Lisa, Fiona, Elena, Clare, Charlie, Roisin, Me and Emmie. We held …