The internet can be a scary place. Alongside the more unsavoury areas of the web there are also the sites that will not set the safesearch filters twitching, but instead pose the more genteel threats of the desire to make, try to sometimes buy all […]
This ‘1930s Blouse’ is my first competed sewn garment, completed in a couple of afternoons. The pattern is from the book that accompanies the most recent series of The Great British Sewing Bee, which I treated myself to a couple of months ago. I thought […]
I decided a little while ago that IÂ really wanted to try to make my own knickers. I first had the idea many moons ago when I was short of both money and underwear and Mr Awesome had a drawer full of t-shirts, many that he […]
The past few days have seen the annual long weekend where we traditionally go away with a huge group of friends to eat, drink, be merry and play boardgames (whilst maintaining the eating and drinking theme). Because it is a number of days away from […]
After making the Retro Bag from my newest and favourite book purchase 101 Fabric-By-Fabric Ways To Sew A Metre I decided that I couldn’t wait to get back to cutting, basing, pinning and sewing. I have found myself in a rhythm these past two weeks […]
After the relative success of the shopping tote I made on Friday I decided that I would allow myself loose on one of the pieces of fabric that I had brought back from our weekend of shopping in Wales. I have been kind of building […]
