click here Oh man, this fabric and I have been through the ringer! I actually cut out pieces of another pattern before I realised it wasn't going to fit me!! Fortunately, the Chalk and Notch Fringe Dress came to my rescue and I LOVE the finished dress! For all the grizzly details in the disaster…
Anyone get the quote from the title? I can't stop saying it whenever I wear this dress! Anyway, as I've mentioned before, there's no point writing a whole blog post for my blog when I do one of these reviews as I don't have any more to say than I have already said (and WHO…
Hello! Another quick post today to say I've written a whole blog post about this Simplicity pattern. I got this super cute Octopus jersey from Minerva Crafts and wrote a blog post for them which you can read here! Hope you've all had a great week! Disclaimer: ⭐️Fabric was provided free of charge in exchange for…
If I love a pattern I am totally likely to make it again. If I have gone to the effort of taping and cutting OR tracing a pattern, fitting it to my measurements and learning new techniques by sewing it, YOU BETTER BELIEVE I am making it again if it is a success! This was…
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…
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…
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…
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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