After a summer full of dresses, I've been wanting to add more separates to my wardrobe this autumn. In particular sweatshirts, cardigans and blouses. A couple of weeks ago Ana from CocoWawa Crafts released her newest design the Chestnut Sweater and Top I bought it right away and I had it printed and stuck together the same evening. [...]
I had kept approx 1.2m of the amazing Cobra Corsage scuba before it sold out (in less than 48 hours I might add) with the intention of using it to make some sort of a shift dress ready for the upcoming party season. Fortunately When issue 44 of Love Sewing magazine landed on my doormat earlier this month [...]
I am a big fan of Sew Over It patterns and I was excited to get my hands on the Eve dress pattern when it was released earlier on this summer. So excited I made it twice. When deciding which size to cut I spent some time reviewing the finished measurements and considering it is a wrap style I decided [...]
I fell in love with the stunning Outback Wife barkcloth in February when I first laid eyes back in February. The collection has been designed by Cathi of Gertrude made. If you don't know about Cathi, she lives on a farm with her husband and young family in rural Western Australia and makes the most beautiful dresses [...]
Hello there! It's been a while since I posted anything here on the blog, so I thought I'd write a little review of a dress I made last month. I was one of the testers for the newly released Orsola dress and skirt pattern by British designers By Hand London. I used our Rose Garden viscose and made the dress version with the [...]
I've owned the Tilly and the Buttons Coco pattern for ages, I've only just got round to sewing her up because last winter I was pregnant and I didn't really feel like Coco was right for me this past summer. So, after a long wait I managed to sew up two Coco's in the space of a [...]
