Simplicity 2255, or ‘the comfiest shirt in the world’

Sorry it's been a little quiet on the western front but I have been sewing, I promise - I even finished another make! Last Sunday I finished making Simplicity 2255 in an Indian print cotton voile and it's basically the comfiest thing ever. I'd seen a girl at work wearing a sleeveless Indian print shirt …

The Betty dress

This is a queue-busting post! It's been sat for ages without pictures and I haven't started sewing something new to post yet this week so I thought I'd share a dress I finished a couple of months ago. On one of many fabric buying trips down on Goldhawk Road, I bought this amazing cotton hibiscus …

Make Do And Gift

If in doubt, make a gift! A friend that I have known since I was 17 recently expressed an interest in learning to sew and her birthday was approaching so I wanted to mark the occasion. Mika lives in the Netherlands now so I wanted to send her a gift but as it couldn't be too big …

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 …

New projects

Just a few updates today - no project currently on the go but several in the works! First up, the Belcarra blouse from Sewaholic! I finally bought my 'medicinal' pattern (woo! No more tonsillitis!) from Trixie Lixie and I'm going to start this tomorrow night. I have this great floral fabric that I picked up at the Knitting …

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 …

Swayback when…

Today was a disaster. A complete fail. After almost 4 years of not properly drafting a pattern (don't judge, no sew mojo remember?) I discovered today that I really need to read a few books before I start drafting from scratch. Yesterday morning I met up with an old work colleague for coffee and catch-up, and …