I fell in love with the texture and heft of this fabric from Pitt Trading. It’s wonderfully thick and strong, verging on canvas like. However I was completely perplexed as […]
Sewing Adventures: Simplicity 1873
A few weeks ago I was doing some procrastisewing (you know, procrastinating by sewing). I’d decided it was suddenly vital to empty the work in progress box and get some […]
Sewing Adventures – disaster time
You know how sometimes you should just go back to bed and pull the cover over your head and hide? Yeah? well that was my week. I managed to ruin […]
It wasn’t me officer, it was the secretary
Sew Dolly Clackett is a phenomenon! Now we all agree that Roisin has incredible style and how awesome is it that everyone has been able to jump in the deep […]
Sewing Adventures – Pleated skirt
This is not from the stash of fabrics but the stash of unfinished objects of the sewing kind. I’ve previously made this fabric up into a dress. When I was […]
Sewing Adventures
Sometimes you just need a dress, not a fancy dress or even a complicated dress. More of a “it’s been hot and I need something to throw on” type of […]
Sewing Adventures
After last week’s musings on skirts I decided to jump right in and make one on the weekend. I had this pattern from one of those buy one get one […]
Sewing Adventures
What a wet and wild weekend here in Sydney. Wet weather is perfect for sewing….then again what weather isn’t perfect for sewing? Finished up this Simplicity style which is […]
Sewing adventures
I thought each Monday morning it would be nice to have a bit of a recap on my weekly weekend sewing adventures. This weekend I finished a project that has […]
Summer Sewing Adventures
It’s a sunny Monday morning and while the air is still just a tiny bit crisp, summer is about to hit and after such a mild winter it’s looking like […]