September sewing plans

My poor neglected blog... I'm still here I promise! I've had a post for September half drafted for ages but I just haven't had the time to properly finish it. August ran away with me too - I was away for a week so that did cut down sewing time, but if I'm being totally …

November sewing plans

Another month gone, so time to make more plans! After a month of ‘no plan, no pressure’ sewing, I am ready to set myself some simple goals for November to ease me in to winter stitching and hopefully get my sewjo going again: Make a Grainline Studio Linden. I’ve already got the fabrics out to …

April sewing plans

March has flown by! Thankfully I have had a surprisingly productive month and I've done a lot of sewing (and a bit too much fabric shopping, whoops). However I have a very busy April ahead of me so I only have 3 goals for the month: Finish sorting my fabric stash. Yep, the same goal …

#bpsewvember Day 4, 5 and 6

Day 4: Fun One of the fun things about sewing for me is that it's a truly international skill - all around the world are people just like me sitting making wonderful things! When I go abroad I've started trying to pick up so fabric or trim from a local shop so when I get …

#sewphotohop Day 15: Sewing space

#sewphotohop Day 15: Sewing space. My sewing space is ALWAYS a complete tip with stuff on every surface - it needs a proper sort out! But I do have a giant window to sew next to and an even more enormous cutting table to work on, plus lots of room for books, patterns and my …

#sewphotohop Day 3: Dream project

#sewphotohop Day 3: Dream project. This isn't actually my dream project, but an gorgeous example anyway - I have always loved period clothing and I would LOVE to make a proper historical outfit. I love mid to late Victorian and most early 20th century fashions so to be able to accurately recreate an outfit would …

#sewphotohop Day 1: Hello!

#sewphotohop Day 1: Hello! I'm Jenny! I sew, blog about it and buy too much fabric! There are worse habits!

Petal Sorbetto

A new post! 2 posts in one week! What is this productive madness?! I have a couple of makes that just need some finishing touches which will be written up soon but this is a quick make I finished last week. I don't often read magazines (I only buy them when there's a good freebie!) …

V1467 sewalong – update #1

I'll be perfectly frank - I'm a bit intimidated by this peacoat sewalong project, and have been putting it off a bit under the pretence of "I'll just get this (and this and this) project finished first and then I'll start, honestly..." I'd previously heard from other dressmakers that Vogue patterns are notoriously hard to …

The Refashioners 2015

In July Portia from makery.uk announced she would be running the Refashioners project again for 2015! This year however was different to previous years (2011 and 2013) - instead of refashioning any garment they wanted, every single participant had to refashion a man's shirt. The first month saw Portia's line-up of guest bloggers demonstrating their …