This weekend two of my closest friends married each other. And I bawled my eyes out. It was the perfect day and I’m so happy for them, even though I’m a teeny bit jealous of their amazing honeymoon plans. For the occasion I wanted the perfect dress. When I saw the new Gertie pattern Butterick …
Today I’m here to share a Minerva Blogger Network make! I had a short break from the Network while I worked on some other projects and will probably keep the collaborating a bit more sporadic this year so I can keep sewing from my stash! For the dress I chose a gorgeous quilting cotton in …
Yoohooo! Fun times over here! I’m super happy* with my new dress and ready to share. Basically this is a dress you’ve seen a billion times before from me. I’ve paired the Simplicity 2444 bodice with the skirt from the Sureau (a dress that I still can’t get to fit nicely). This cracking cotton duck fabric …
Hello Sewing Bee fans! In advance of tonight’s episode White Tree Fabrics gave me 2 metres of the lovely teal/aqua coloured leaf lace seen in the show and in the accompanying book, used on this gorgeous pencil skirt. The lace has such a pretty scalloped selvedge I wanted to showcase that. So I thought if I …
Hello everyone. I’m back to share some progress from my textile printing evening class! For Week Four we used Procien dyes to hand paint screens and used a substance called manutex to push the colour onto the fabric. Now being a terrible freehand artist this scared me. I started obsessing over what was the simplest geometric …
Well hello! Just a quick post today. I’ve got a foxy metallic pussy bow blouse to share. I used a metallic chiffon from Jack’s Fabrics. It’s actually gold metallic on top of black chiffon. It was £2 a metre so a mega bargain. I used a metre and a half for the blouse in total as …