I just wanted to pop on ye olde blog quickly to signpost you to this month's Minerva Blogger Network post. I made these green Heyday Dungarees with button hack and I am really happy with them. If you want to read the full blog post you can read all about it here. I will be…
I'm so excited to finally share this pinafore with you. I've been wearing it LOADS! It goes with loads of stuff in my wardrobe and I've been wearing it constantly, layered up on cold days and like this on warm days. It is, of course, the Pippi Pinafore from Jennifer Lauren. I absolutely fell in…
It seems strange to be writing about pattern testing the Camden Skirt when the pattern has been out for months but it's been a bit of a winding road for me and this pattern! I don't do a lot of pattern testing, it is often on a very short timeline and I don't enjoy sewing…
As you might have guessed, these pictures were taken a while ago! Often when I make things as a fabric review for Minerva Crafts, there is a gap between me taking the photos and me being able to publish the post. I don't mind though and am enjoying being reminded of frolicking round a frosty…
When you realise that your three year old is happy to match mummy - you run don't walk to the sewing machine! I mean how cute are mummy and baby (ok not really baby anymore) matching sweatshirts?! I ordered this amazing narwhal sweatshirt for me but as soon as I realised I had enough scraps…
Did you know that the collective noun for swans in flight is a wedge of swans? I absolutely love learning funny/interesting collective nouns like a parliament of owls and a cauldron of bats. Do you have any favourites? I love silly facts like that and I even think that the folds of the Kielo dress…
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I was sent some of this loop back jersey to review for Minerva Crafts and I knew immediately that it was going to become a Papercut Pattern's Solar Sweater, a pattern that I had been eyeing up for a while and was in fact the only thing I snapped up in the Black Friday sales…
Only long-time followers of the blog will remember my experiments last year with dyeing tablecloths. I absolutely loved the finished results but since then they have sat in my stash waiting for the perfect project! Well a few weeks ago, I finally had the idea for the perfect project! The Sew Liberated Metamorphic Dress! This…
Hello! It's quite hard to follow up on last week's Freebie Sewing Patterns blog post - man we all love a free pattern don't we? Luckily, I've got some gorgeous sewing tools to giveaway so we can keep the free stuff train going! A few weeks ago, my mum posted on Instagram a picture of…
I requested some of this beautiful Lady McElroy floral cotton poplin from Minerva Crafts as for my January Blogger Network post. I absolutely love the print but I didn’t realise the flowers on it are MASSIVE! When the fabric arrived I was a bit worried that I had ordered it with plans to make a…
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