Amy Jumpsuit: Stripes Away
Ahhh, this fabric! Sometimes a sewing project is all about a pattern. Other times, it’s all about the fabric! When I was fortunate enough to make my first (only) ever…
Me Made May 2019 featuring The Curated Closet
Revelations and Resolutions Can we all just agree that, in the sewing community, we all make our “New Year’s Sewing Resolutions” in June, just after Me Made May? It makes…
Sirocco Jumpsuit
Work-ready pyjamas anyone? Of Deer and Doe’s most recent pattern release, the darling was surely the lovely Sirocco Jumpsuit. If instagram is anything to go by, I’m certainly not the…
Saraste Shirt Dress: Breaking the Pattern
This beauty is the Saraste Shirt Dress from Breaking the Pattern. Which, in case you’ve been living under a sewing machine cover, is maybe the best sewing book ever, from…
Palisade Pants
I feel like I’m stuck in something of a sewing cycle at the moment where I am swinging from great success to abject failure – with not much middle ground…
Zadie Jumpsuit Perfection
Zadie, Zadie, Zadie, Zadie… Can we just officially declare the Zadie Jumpsuit by Paper Theory pattern of the year and be done with it? Look I’m even doing the jumpsuit…
My Jasika Blazer of Glory
If a daffodil-coloured Jasika Blazer representing a great leap forward in sewing skills and attitude isn’t the perfect way to welcome in the Northern hemisphere spring, then I don’t know…
Ruska Knot Dress: Breaking the Pattern
So, it seems I am sewing my way through Named Clothing’s Breaking the Pattern Book. So far I’ve sewn a Saraste shirt/top, Rae pants and an Utu Pinafore. Today, it’s…
Utu Pinafore: Breaking the Pattern
I’d been looking for a smart, put-together piece of work wear for those days at work when I need to actually look like I’m a lawyer. You too? Enter Utu……
Ravine Dress: Bias Baby
Today I’ve got the Ravine Dress from Papercut Patterns because, like many of us, I pretty much fell in love with all of Papercut’s Geo Collection the moment I saw…