#sewphotohop Day 19: Boldest fabric

#sewphotohop Day 19: Boldest fabric. This is probably the boldest print I have - when I saw @byhandlondon post the Victoria Blazer in this print I just had to have some - I got mine from eBay a couple of years ago but I just don't know what to make with it! It's just chillin' …

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#sewphotohop Day 9: Stash

#sewphotohop Day 9: Stash. I have 8 big boxes for my stash, but I can only fit 6 under my cutting table 😦 It used to be colour coded but it currently is just jumbled up together and in dire need of a good sort out! What is not pictured is all of the other …

#sewphotohop Day 6: Pattern that changed my life

#sewphotohop Day 6: Pattern that changed my life. After several years of not sewing after drama school, the first thing I managed to pull myself together enough to finish was a pair of cropped pjs from the first Great British Sewing Bee book. Very simple but I was so pleased that I'd managed to finally …

Do you ever…

...have those days where you have all the best intentions but get absolutely nothing done? OK, so I exaggerate a bit - I did finally clean the bathroom... I had planned to possibly finish my Belcarra today, toilé and all. But as you can probably guess, that hasn't quite happened. I got my fabric out last week only …

Sorbetto hack #1, or the Buffalo hack

As you may remember from a post or so ago, I had a complete fail trying to draft a version of a summer top I had found on shopping trip. You may also remember that my recent polka dot Sorbetto from the weekend had been a bit of a minor success for me. Spurred on …

Dotty about Sorbetto

I love polka dots. A lot. I don't have enough of them in my life. I also love buying fabric. A lot. But I am pretty much out of room for storing more stash, so something simply had to give! After my recent trip to Birmingham, I decided the best way to stash bust as …

Guthrie & Ghani

During my recent northern excursion my mum and I decided to pay a visit to the small town of Moseley near Birmingham in order to visit Guthrie & Ghani. Run and owned by Lauren Guthrie, 2013 contestant on the first series of BBC 2's Great British Sewing Bee, it started out as an online business with a physical premises …

Treasure!

As promised, this post is about all my lovely new treasure from the Rag Market! I love buying fabric and planning all the things I'm going to do with my purchases. However my ever growing stash is pretty much begging me to stop... Thing is, I'm really quite good at buying fabric, I'm just not …

Birmingham Rag Market

This weekend my parents, Hayden and I went up to Birmingham on a fabric hunting adventure. Our usual haunt is Goldhawk Road, but due to the planned redevelopment of the Shepherds Bush Market area, my mum and I are preparing to make alternative arrangements for when our stashes feel a bit low, or if we …