How to adjust running tights patterns for fabric with more than the recommended amount of stretch
Sewing For Him Indoors
Review of the Thread Theory strathcona henley sewing pattern
Testing My Elastic Recovery
Pattern testing the Sinclair Patterns Poesy blouse during the Great Elastic Shortage of 2020
Lounging Around the Coverstitch
Review of the Sinclair Patterns sunset lounge pants, working with a coverstitch machine complete with pics of how to get a good workout on an old railway track 🙂
Can She Kalle?
Pattern review of the kalle shirt cropped version, lengthened to regular shirt length
My First Homemade Handbag
Dressmaker turns bag maker! Review of my attempt to make the Swoon Patterns Carter Messenger Bag.
An Extra Special Star Wars Dress
I use the force and an SOI Betty dress pattern to make a made to measure dress for a scoliosis twisted spine
The Ariel Steeking Adventure
I attempt to knit the ariel cardigan and steek my way through stranded colourwork
The Excellent Skirt of Errors
I did so many things wrong during the making of this Sandbridge skirt that if I put up pictures of all the flaws it would look like a circus of dressmaking horrors. But somehow despite that, I utterly adore it and have barely stopped gazing lovingly at it since I made it. Let's talk about … Continue reading The Excellent Skirt of Errors
Phoenix Rising From The Flowers
Every so often I get this mad thought that maybe I have too much fabric in my stash and perhaps I should pause my subscription box. Â Thankfully Sew Hayley Jane usually stops this insanity by sending through through an absolute stunner. Â Like this vivid floral peachskin in the June box that I'd never have chosen … Continue reading Phoenix Rising From The Flowers
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