One Stitch At A Time
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 […]
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 […]
I’ve only been sewing for a couple months but I have a deep appreciation of the benefits sewing has had for me, personally. The everyday can be grinding and things do get to us – that’s all part of being human, I’m afraid. Look around you at the minute at what stress and anxiety does […]
In this post, I am returning to a topic that came up in my very first blog post – body image. Why? Because not long after I posted the blog entry, a woman (or a betrayal of the word) started harassing me with taunts about my weight and jeered at the very idea of me […]
“I am certain that a Sewing Machine would relieve as much human suffering as a hundred Lunatic Asylums, and possibly a good deal more.” Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace As my first post, I thought it would make sense to write about why I sew. Sewing makes me feel happy In case the title of the […]