Tag Archives: Pippa
Future Sewing Plans
This recently Nikki and I took a trip to Fabric Land in Bournemouth to get some fabric for the Latin dresses, well that didn’t happen but I did come back with a big bag of new fabrics for me and here are some ideas of what I plan to sew with them (confession: some of these might already have… Read more »
Sunday Sevens #15
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 »
Sunday Sevens #14
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. Only 6 photos this week as I haven’t really been doing much. My Aims for next week are to finally beat this cold, and organise. There is only a month till… Read more »
Blue Brioche Cowl
I decided to make a cowl to match my headband. I have been wanting to make one in brioche stitch with a variegated yarn and see what happened, or even possibly two variegated yarns… I used King Cole, Merino Blend DK in Petrol (926), and James C Brett Marble Chunky MC52 I cast on 90 stitches in the plain blue… Read more »
Sunday Sevens
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. So I am currently sat on the sofa in Southampton even though I should be back in Poole, curled up under a blanket feeling very sorry for myself… I have had quite… Read more »
2015 Sewing
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 »
Sunday Sevens #12
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. This week I am also going to continue to post my goals for the coming week to see if that helps me get them achieved. *Second attempt as everything disappeared from my… Read more »
Sunday Sevens 11
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. This week I am also going to continue to post my goals for the coming week to see if that helps me get them achieved, … Read more »
Sewaholic Renfrew
I over the years I have been working on getting a decent T-shirt pattern and have tried Sewaholic’s Renfrew top. It took me a while to get it to fit nicely. I ended up cutting two sizes smaller than I started with and doing an FBA, I also adjusted the size of the armscye as I always find this cuts… Read more »