Tag: Liberty of London

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What I Made, March 2022 Lingerie Society subscription box

Hi Everyone, normally you see me doing the unboxing of The Lingerie Society subscription boxes, this time I’m sharing what I made from the March 2022 box.

You can see the earlier cutting out and planning portion in another video. You can watch that one here https://youtu.be/VpdtvkTnzB8

Patterns used Maya Bralet by Studio Costura https://www.studiocostura.com/patrones

Box from The Lingerie Society by Pitt Trading https://www.pitttrading.com.au/the-li…

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What I’m wearing Dress Pattern: Myosotis from Deer and Doe in Liberty of London Tana Lawn

Earrings: Harry and Herne

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Fabric Haul September 2022 from The Strawberry Thief

When Australia’s biggest supplier of Liberty of London fabric has a sale you can bet I jumped in to grab a bargain, see what I got Fabric purchased The Strawberry Thief https://thestrawberrythief.com.au/

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What I’m wearing – self drafted dress in Outback Wife Barkcloth fabric

Earrings – Harry and Herne

Nailpolish – Hanami in Everlong

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Beginner Sewing – how to sew bunting

Join me, Susan from Measure Twice Cut Once, as I take you through how to sew some bunting, a great reuseable way to decorate your house for a party, event or just everyday.

You’ll be learning how to cut a straight line, sew a straight line with a point, turn corners. Clip to reduce bulk and grade seams back to reduce bulk resulting in a fine point. I’ve used leftovers from garments of Liberty of London cotton lawn but you can use any fabric you have.

The pattern is available from the Measure Twice Cut Once website https://measuretwicecutonce.com.au

2022 is my year of taking the Scary out of Sewing! I want as many people as possible to take up sewing so they can create, make, mend and more. To help take away the scary, every Friday there is going to be a new video with accompanying pattern for a project entirely aimed at beginners. Each week there will be different techniques to learn or go over and it’s going to be a super fun way to grow your sewing skills.

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What I’m wearing Dress: Mysotis pattern from Deer and Doe in Liberty of London cotton lawn

Nail Polish: Xanadau by Hanami

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Sewing Adventures – Liberty insertion Dress

Regular readers are no strangers to seeing my go to dress, my own bodice block mixed with either a gathered or pleated skirt. It is by far the garment I have made the most as its not only a fast easy make it’s easy so easy to wear.

Rewind to late November 2019, I’m working 7 days a week, it’s hot the air is heavy with bushfire smoke and we are preparing to fly to England for Christmas. To say I was busy would be a vast understatement of the facts. In my bid to speed things up I grabbed some Liberty fabric from the stash that was pre washed, my bodice pattern and headed to Bobbin and Ink to teach for the day. Good Luck with the buses meant I arrived early lay out my fabric, cut my bodice and thought yep no problems tonnes left for my skirt.

Only not so much, my skirt was too short, like much too short. In a panic and under time pressure I basically threw it back into my to do pile where it has been floundering ever since.

The fabric was way too pretty to lose so I needed to find a solution.

Cue some insertion lace and leftovers from one of my Liberty fabric Myosotis dresses. Using 2 lines of insertion makes the whole look more deliberate and less like I made a big mistake.

Showing that a little bit of a break and some creative thinking means that everything can be salvaged just sometimes we need to slow down and take a step back to find our solutions.It was also approved by the cat (an important part of the process that I’m sure all cat owners will agree with me).

Pattern: my own bodice block with a modified skirt

Fabric: Liberty lawn from Liberty of London, insertion lace from Pitt Trading

Alterations: next time just slow down and think some more