DIY Dressmaking with Emily ❤️
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 […]
If the McCalls 7969 was the it dress of 2021 then the Anthea Blouse was the it blouse. There’s definitely been a few moments in the past few months where they were all I saw on my social media feeds! The Anthea Blouse is a relatively recent release from Anna Allen (maker of the famous […]
It doesn’t feel like a year has passed between writing these last two yearly recaps. It seems crazy to me at how quickly time has flown! (Maybe it just does that in the midst of a global pandemic?) Despite my lack of consistent updating, the crafting and making at Self Assembly Required HQ had been […]
I had no intentions of making the Celeste pattern from Selkie until I heard there was a competition to win a fancy schmancy embroidery sewing machine from Husqvarna Viking if you made one! Typically, I only heard about the competition about 6 days before the deadline so the challenge was not just about the pattern […]
If I had to pick my pattern of the year, the Nina Lee Park Lane dress. It’s the pattern I never knew I needed until I had it and then I couldn’t stop making more! This time I was inspired by the brand Yolke who for whatever reason kept popping up on my Instagram feeds […]
