Make your own style
Hi Readers, Today I am sharing my review of The Avid Seamstress Coat pattern made up in a rather special fabric; a wool melton doeskin from A W Hainsworth. Never heard of them? Well, tbh, I didn’t know much about them either. But when they asked me if I would be interested in making something […]
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Hi Everyone, Today I am sharing my review of Simplicity 8389, which I think is one of those patterns which is so easy to dismiss from the envelope, but it is all kinds of good! First let me tell you about the fabric. It is another find from Fabworks, and is actually a wool suiting […]
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Friends, I returned to work after a 5 year break a year ago (already?!) and realised I didn’t own a suit anymore. I bought around 7 metres of this wool/ viscose/ elastane suiting from Fabworks last year (sorry, all sold out now, but other options available on their website), and thought I would make a […]
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Hello Readers! Hope you are enjoying the long weekend (assuming you get one). I have taken the whole of next week off too, so I have got 10 days in which to get some sewing done. Bliss. Today I am sharing something fun which I have not yet had the chance to wear 🙂 It’s […]
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Hi Everyone! It’s a little while since my last post. I have been sewing. But you know, the weather has not been particularly conducive to blog photography, so the “to-blog list” is increasing! Here’s a dress a made a few weeks back which has been getting worn a fair bit. I find it’s a great […]
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Hey Friends, Today is a quick share of my most recent make: a button down shirt dress made using Simplicity 8014. This is my second time making this shirt dress. You can see my first version here, made using an African wax print. This time round the main alteration I made was doing a 5/8ths […]
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Hello Friends! Today I am sharing my review of Vogue 8940 which I made for Philip as his Christmas present. I think getting it done within 3 weeks of Christmas is not a bad feat 🙂 Both the outer wool melton and the acetate satin twill lining came from Fabworks – both are beautiful quality […]
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Hello Friends, Today is a double whammy of Simplicity/ Mimi G Style patterns, made using Simplicity 1283 and Simplicity 1167 (which I have made before….see here, here and here). First off, thanks to the Simplicity/ Newlook group for gifting me Simplicity 1283…they let me choose three patterns and this was one of them. Secondly, this […]
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Hi Readers, I liked the looks of McCalls 7688 as soon as it was released: ruffles and ruching? You know I was all over it, so much so I ordered it from the States in the Thanksgiving sales. It so happened that CottonBee Fabrics, a new to me custom fabric company, based in Poland, were […]
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Hi Friends, Still playing catch up on makes from last year….there is this one and one more to come. Anyway, this is the Talvikki Sweater by Named Clothing, made in a petrol blue boiled wool purchased locally to me. This is my first experience of sewing with this Finnish pattern company, and I am […]
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