Last year I made myself a ball dress for Bath Ball, this year I decided to make myself a top which went over this dress to make it another outfit. Initially I made a top out of a burda style magazine but it really didn’t fit and I don’t have any photos of it. My mother came to my rescue… Read more »
Finally! I have made myself a pair of trousers. This makes me insanely happy 🙂 The Outfit Along 2016 has finally kicked my arse enough to get round to making myself a pair of trousers. During my less than successful attempt at Me Made May made me realise that this is a section of my wardrobe that I need to… Read more »
Here is this weeks Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, This week I have struggled a bit with motivation to do anything, I think it comes from knowing that I am leaving but not knowing actually when yet, some time ‘next’ week. 1 ) This week started with a bit more diy. We got a new dresser from… Read more »
Welcome to last weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own. Sorry its a bit late, I didn’t take my laptop back with me at the weekend and it is much harder to organise all of this on my mobile. 1 ) So… Read more »
Welcome to this weeks instalment of Sunday Sevens from Natalie at Thread and Bobbins, posting 7 photos of your week that wouldn’t warrant blog posts of their own. A surprinsgly productive week considering I didn’t even leave the house until weds evening. Next week would like to make more tops, look at getting a decent pattern for a layering… Read more »
Last week I didn’t have a very productive week, at least it didn’t feel like that, thank you to everyone who told me that they thought I had been productive. It made me think about what aims we set for ourself. Within the sewing/blogging community it can be very easy to see other people churning out garments one after another… Read more »
Another Seamwork pattern that I have made multiple times is the Oslo cardigan, unfortunately I only have my version left to be able to take photographs of as the other two were given as gifts to Nikki and my Mother. I made this up in a lovely open knit fabric from Tia Knight, which unfortunately got washed a little too… Read more »
Reading Sewaholics post about making time for different hobbies and being sat here reading blogs early in the morning thinking that I need to get up and do things I think that I’m going to have to follow in Anneke’s footsteps and start scheduling in my time more… To be able to do this I need to work out what… Read more »
So Pippa and I have a bit of love for charity shops and we are always trying to find a bargain in them so I thought I’d show some of the things that we have picked up in charity shops recently. I’m sure there will be more along soon… Red wool jumper: I picked this up from a charity shop… Read more »
