One Stitch At A Time
Roughly, 1 in every 4 people in the UK experiences some form of mental health concern each year. Given the prevalence of these issues, it helps to find ways that can help us to equip us to deal with common mental health concerns like anxiety or stress, which many of us will have experienced in […]
When I first started dressmaking at the start of the year and was scouring through the hashtags for inspiration, Hannah was one that kept calling out to me and it has been on my ‘to-make’ list for the last couple of months. This is clearly an incredibly popular pattern and, now that I have made […]
What they never tell you before you take up sewing as a hobby is that it involves a lot of ironing… It is surprising how your most hated chore becomes tolerable once it’s an essential part of a sewing project. My ironing board was a bit drab (still covered in the bland cover it came […]
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 […]
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 […]
If you caught my review of Tilly and the Buttons’ Love At First Stitch – a book that took me from beginner status to confident beginner stage in a matter of weeks – you won’t be surprised that my next move was to order Tilly’s second book, Stretch. I read it – like Love At […]
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 […]