Small ones, medium ones, giant ones. So it’s not surprising I bought 5 types of polka dot fabric at the Birmingham meet up! This is what I did with my three metres of black and white large polka dot satin fabric. First up I wanted to make a Colette Truffle dress. I made FOUR toiles trying …
Refashioning to the max-i
I call this the Promaballoona project. If you don’t know about Oona and her “recent” Promaballoona you’re missing out. I wanted to go but had my own deadlines to work to and couldn’t whip up a dress in time (or sort the minor matter of flights out). Watching with jealousy as everyone else got ready, attended and had …
I love Bunnies
Bunnies are awesome. I doubt you’re going to disagree with me but I’m going to say why anyway. I used to have a bunny called Honey. Yep that’s right, Honey Bunny. And I used to push him around in a replica of a silver cross pram. Only the best for my baby! (errr, I should …
uh oh!
Something unthinkable has happened… I’m not digging my fishy dress anymore. I still LOVE the fabric to death but I feel like I’m letting it down with how I’m using it. Is this a crisis of faith? I was too smug wasn’t I. Not posting pictures and dancing with glee about it. And now I …
Bookended by Burda
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 …
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 …