The Spring Knitting and Stitching Show is coming up fast and I’ve got 5 pairs of tickets to give away! This is the show held at Olympia in West London every year (the autumn show is held at Alexandra Palace). It’s always a fun day out! Just make sure you come with an empty shopping […]
The London skirt by Selkie
I’ve finally gotten round to making the new pattern from Selkie! Selkie Patterns started out as a Kickstarter campaign last year run by Londoners Alex and Caroline. (You’d have seen Alex in the cover of a few Tilly and the Button patterns and in her book Stretch). They had a goal of creating a sustainability […]
A tiger t-shirt
Sometimes simple is best. This t-shirt pattern came with the cardigan pattern I got from Stoff & Stil which I used to make this cardi (I actually won a prize for it in the Cosy Cardi challenge!). The t-shirt pattern was a bit of a fringe benefit – which is often the case when patterns […]
The Saraste Shirtdress from Breaking the Pattern
My first Minerva Craft’s Blogger Network for the year went up today! For this post, I decided a lovely new dress would be the perfect way to start off my sewing journey for 2019! I chose 2 metres of the beautiful Atelier Brunette viscose crepe in the Storm colourway. It’s a light petrol blue shade […]
New Year giveaway!
I’ve got something very special in store for you guys today! It’s a fabric giveaway! (What better way to start off the new year than with some free fabric, eh?) So towards the end of last year I did a little bit of blogging for fabric.com and made these… One fabric three ways! I used […]
A #MakeNine roundup and my sewing resolutions for 2019
My #MakeNine list for 2018 got woefully forgotten just a few months into the year. This is what my list looked like… I made 4 of the 9 patterns shown here – the Simplicity 8454 blouse, the Sew House 7 Burnside Bibs, the Rowan bodysuit from Megan Nielsen and the Closet Case Ginger Jeans. I […]
