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Bodging Bendy Boulders

November 19, 2021November 21, 2021Leave a comment

How to adjust running tights patterns for fabric with more than the recommended amount of stretch

Sewing For Him Indoors

March 1, 2021March 1, 20211 Comment

Review of the Thread Theory strathcona henley sewing pattern

Testing My Elastic Recovery

June 8, 2020June 28, 2020Leave a comment

Pattern testing the Sinclair Patterns Poesy blouse during the Great Elastic Shortage of 2020

Lounging Around the Coverstitch

October 20, 2019October 26, 2019Leave a comment

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?

July 6, 2019July 6, 2019Leave a comment

Pattern review of the kalle shirt cropped version, lengthened to regular shirt length

My First Homemade Handbag

April 17, 2019April 17, 20192 Comments

Dressmaker turns bag maker! Review of my attempt to make the Swoon Patterns Carter Messenger Bag.

An Extra Special Star Wars Dress

April 7, 2019April 7, 20191 Comment

I use the force and an SOI Betty dress pattern to make a made to measure dress for a scoliosis twisted spine

The Excellent Skirt of Errors

September 16, 2018Leave a comment

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

July 8, 2018July 8, 2018Leave a comment

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.  Thankfully Sew Hayley Jane usually stops this insanity by sending through through an absolute stunner.  Like this vivid floral peachskin in the June box that I'd never have chosen … Continue reading Phoenix Rising From The Flowers

Frolicking in the Fens

February 18, 2018Leave a comment

I've got to be honest, I was a bit dubious when this indigo shibori stretch cotton turned up in my SewHayleyJane subscription box. Normally new fabric and I have a moment of communing with each other and I get an idea of what it might eventually become, but this just wasn't singing at all, not … Continue reading Frolicking in the Fens

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