DIY Dressmaking with Emily ❤️
[AD – gifted fabric in collaboration with Peppermint Magazine and Spoonflower] The Bowen dress is the latest free pattern from Peppermint Magazine’s Sewing School. It’s a boxy loose fit summer dress – very much leaning into the oversized and gathered trend – designed by Hubba Ding Patterns, a new-to-me pattern company. It features a short […]
I’m that person that hangs on to my favourite fabrics, waiting and hoping for the perfect project to come along for it. One of these was a viscose print I got from Stoff &Stil (when it was still Stoff & Stil!) several years ago! the dark green print featured a delicate floral pattern and the […]
I’ve been seemingly collecting ends of denim over the years – mostly as a result of always having to purchase 2 metre lengths of denim for jeans and only really needing 1.2-1.5 metres (they always recommend getting a little extra in case you need to recut anything which is a sensible thing to do but […]
The Didi sweater has that retro 80s/90s vibe with the quarter zip that’s all the rage at the moment and this pattern was one that I was most excited about from edition 17 of Fibre Mood. I’d seen samples and a line drawing ahead of its release and thought this was a sweater I’d love […]
This is a rather belated Lunar New Year pyjama post! Every Lunar New Year (or Chinese New Year in my house), my mother has insisted on us having new pyjamas and clothes. It’s tradition! (I think historically it’s always been a time when kids get their new clothes for the year much like how you […]
I’ve been admiring the Kit Couture kits for quite some time now and finally decided to treat myself to a kit for Christmas this year! I picked the Stjernøya Slipover partly because I loved the sewing but also partly because it’s a smaller project than going for a full sweater straight off the bat. That […]
The Zero Waste Gather dress by Birgitta Helmersson is a pattern came to my attention a fair while ago now – well, I feel like I bought it a heck of a long time ago anyway! The concept behind the pattern is simple. Zero waste. By some magic you’d be able to use every single […]
I made one other thing for my holiday and that was a new set of dungaree shorts! I’d always planned on making some and this seemed like a great time to do so! I decided to use a pattern I’d made once before – the Jenny overalls from Closet Core Patterns. I liked the loose […]
This post is a little out of season for the northern hemisphere but I recently got away for some winter sun! I managed to sneak away to Mexico this January for a much needed holiday and for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. Ten days of glorious warmth, sunshine and beach times […]
This was my last knit of 2021 and I managed to get it done just in time for the Christmas period! I had been moving towards lighter knits after enjoying a year or two of super bulky projects. My recent Wool and the Gang New Rules sweater introduced me to the loveliness that is blown […]
