Hello! Remember me? I used to sew things and then write about them here. Well I still don’t actually have a sewn garment to show you as I have spent precisely zero minutes at my sewing machine so far this year but I do have a handmade garment. I knit a cardigan. I am ridiculously
Way back in December two of my favourite people got married. Unfortunately*, it wasn’t to each other so I had two weddings to attend. 132 miles apart… I went to the ceremony and reception of a good friend from work’s wedding in Ceredigion in the morning and then travelled to the evening reception of another
Top 5 Goals: What do you hope to achieve in 2015? 1. Tackle fitting I want to get better at fitting patterns and figure out what standard adjustments I need to be making. I have ordered myself Fit for Real People with my Christmas money from my lovely Nan. I’m looking forward to reading it
Top 5 Misses: What went wrong or never got worn? 1. Love at First Stitch Megan dress As I said in my top 5 hits post I loved this dress but unfortunately the first time it was washed the blue from the skirt ran onto the bodice and ruined the dress. So I’ve only worn
As I only started sewing in March and haven’t really made that many things (11 including a UFO and a non-blogged experiment) this might be a bit of a challenge for me but I love reading other people’s Top 5s and I am very much a list maker so I couldn’t not join in. Top
This right here is the reason I started sewing. So I can own party dresses that have hunky topless festive dudes all over them. I am so obscenely pleased with it. Please excuse the quality of the photos, I don’t know why they’re so grainy and it’s too dark for me to bother retaking them
Well firstly, hello to everyone who found me through Tilly’s blog! I actually have another Tilly make for you today, I hope you like it. Meet Mimi. I actually started making this (I really want to call it her) months ago and it seems to have taken me ages to actually get around to finishing
Or maybe that should be misadventures in pattern cutting… I went to my first pattern cutting class last Thursday but when I checked in at reception I found out that there was a chance the course wouldn’t go ahead if there weren’t enough of us. They needed 12-14 and only 7 of us turned up
I recently discovered the Sewcialists, an online community of people who like sewing and social media. It seems like a great way to discover other sewing blogs – both on the blog aggregate and the flickr group – and connect with like-minded people. Each month there is a themed sewalong, with past themes featuring colours
I’ve been planning to make the Megan dress from Tilly and the Buttons book, Love at First Stitch for a little while – it’s one of the main reasons I bought the book – but I kept changing my mind about what fabric to use. I had originally planned to make a red and navy one, copying