Happy New Year! I didn’t post at all last year but I hope you all had as good a year as possible. In a lot of ways 2021 felt worse than 2020 to me but I also had some nice things happen. For a start I got married! I’ve started writing a post all about …
Hey there peeps! Long time no speak. I started writing a catch-up post at the beginning of lockdown here in the UK but I found it so hard to find the right words that it got abandoned. I still don’t know the right words but I’m trying again anyway as I miss writing here. I …
As promised I’m here to nerd out at you with my annual (biannual if you include Me Made May) Stat Attack. I made 18 garments in 2019. That’s the least sewing I’ve done (or fewest completed garments at least) since 2015. I think the main reason is that at the beginning of the year I …
Happy new year! I hope you’re all well and got to have a nice break over the holiday season. The Manfriend and I had a super long break as we went to Gran Canaria to celebrate his birthday the week before Christmas. It was a lovely, relaxed holiday. Lots of reading in the sunshine and …
Happy new year, folks! I hope you all had a lovely Christmas if you celebrate and a good break if you got to have one. My Christmas was lovely and betwixtmas was blissfully relaxed and lazy. I had planned to do a bit of sewing to try to finish off some of my WIPs but …
I can’t quite believe how quickly this year is whizzing away. It seems like only yesterday I was writing the first one of these round-up posts and now it’s nearly Christmas… (I know it’s not really but this year I seem to have mentally skipped spooky season and jumped straight to full on festive mode.) …
Hey peeps, I hope you all had a lovely weekend and Monday has been gentle with you. Somehow another three months have whizzed by and it’s time for another quarterly round-up thingy. I’ve spent the whole three months trying to come up with a name for it and had nothing but The Stitch Rep (like …
WordPress told me it was my anniversary a couple of weeks ago but this is the date I published my first post so this is what I’m calling my blog anniversary. Or blogiversary if you prefer. I started my blog not long after I started sewing so I thought it might be a nice way …
After writing about the reasons I like PDF sewing patterns last week, Melody asked in the comments what my favourite PDF only patterns are. So I put my thinking cap on, had a look at which of the patterns I’ve enjoyed are PDF only and here we are. Helen’s Closet Blackwood cardigan Size range: Bust …
It seems like you’re either a lover or hater of PDF sewing patterns. Personally, I’m a big fan and here are some of my reasons why. 1. No tracing This is the biggy for me because I HATE tracing. I dread it and put it off for ages. I’d far rather sit on the living …
