One Stitch At A Time
That last couple of weeks have been a test of patience in my sewing world. I started making my BHL Flora dress (and the review is pending – *spoiler* it’s a wonderful pattern) when I discovered my zip order had not yet arrived… I am still waiting, as is my Flora dress. I planned on […]
My sewcial isolation activities are in limbo: I’m either waiting for fabric to arrive for patterns I have or I need the A0 printshop copies of my PDF patterns to arrrive so that I can use the fabric I have at home. Things have definitely slowed down a lot over the last couple of weeks, […]
The last few days, my sewing mojo has been put into stasis – I have been burning through my fabric stash at an alarming rate since social distancing was introduced and, this week, I found myself without a sewing project. Either I have fabric on order that has not arrived yet or I’m waiting for […]
Here in the UK, reports have brought to light that medical scrubs are in short supply; this is where anyone with a sewing machine and basic sewing machines can do their bit! Doctors, nurses and other hospital staff wear scrubs under their personal protective equipment (PPE), but the garments have been difficult to buy lately. […]
In the last two weeks, I have made 5 items of clothing; a Deer and Doe Lupin jacket and Reglisse dress, a Threadcount Patterns jersey skater skirt, and a couple of self drafted, everyday dresses – one was made literally for the sole purpose of accessorising a gorgeous recent buy (a sewing themed necklace from […]
Long before I started dressmaking, I knitted. In fact, barely a day would pass without me taking a little time out to knit up at least a few rows of whatever was on the needles. These days, I rarely take on a huge knitting project; it’s more novelty items or snoods. For Christmas, I knitted […]
Sewing with jersey fabrics is not as difficult as you might think. I blogged about my first experience with jersey knit fabric a few weeks ago and was pleasantly surprised at how easy the process was. All you need is the right stitch and needle and the right choice of fabric for your garment. There […]
It’s no secret that I love historical fiction so when the genre aligns itself with sewing (my second love) it’s not even a question of ‘to read or not to read’. As far as historical stories go, the second world war is certainly up there among the most popular historical settings. I usually veer towards […]
There is only one pasttime that I love more than sewing and that’s reading. Books have always been at the heart of my world – so much so that I went on to study literature at university to PhD level, following which I taught Renaissance Literature and Literary Theory in universities before going on to […]
The Covid-19 pandemic has shaken the world and has changed our daily lives in so many ways. We are being advised to stay at home, to stay away from our friends and family; all day trips and holidays are cancelled. This is, sadly, what it is going to take to minimise the spread of the […]