DIY Dressmaking with Emily ❤️
Hope you have all been coping in the heatwave this week! 40 degrees in London just seems mental! Luckily, I am summer ready with this latest make! I picked up the end of a roll of gorgeous linen from Stitch Fabrics at The Stitch Festival earlier this year. I only had 1.4 metres so I […]
I haven’t done one of these posts in a long time (and it’s probably slightly late for the current season but never mind)! I am always influenced to some extent by what’s on the catwalks and in the shops. How could I not be when I see so much of it in our day to […]
I’m only still sewing summer clothes because I’ve got a holiday coming up! The weather has definitely taken a turn for the worse here so this is definitely not a weather appropriate make! The McCall’s 7543 is an off shoulder tunic or dress. It’s probably quite old trend wise but I really like this style […]
I really wanted a pair of really crisp white shorts for this summer. Or (belated) summer holidays in my case. There’s nothing more chic! Plus they’d go with everything… It took me a long time to find the right fabric for the which is why this post is so late in the season! I was […]
Why wear a skirt when you can make pants? Lol. I thought I’d jump on the culotte bandwagon before summer ends and this trend is over! I impulse bought the Vogue 9075 pattern a few months ago – it’s a pattern for either a fit and flare minidress or a culotte jumpsuit and let face […]
I have the perfect fabric and the perfect pattern and perfect weather. For a whole 2 days that is… Typical! I was determined to make them anyway even though they’re destined to be holiday-only shorts. It’s just not warm enough most of the time to wear them here! The fabric I found was a 75p […]
