To sew a new item of clothing each month
I bought the Summit Pack pattern as part of the Sew My Style February challenge. It's a really great rucksack design from Cloudsplitter Bags, and I was really excited to make it but with everying that's happening it's taken me a while. But finally, this weekend, I made my mind up about which of my … Continue reading Summit Pack
I've been filling my Hussif (travel sewing kit) with lots of useful things (needles, folding scissors, pins, tape), but I realised I didn't have a thread catcher! I find a thread catcher to be an essential part of tidy sewing, but I needed to find a design that was collapsible... Happily after a bit of … Continue reading Travel thread catcher
This was a perfect, quick happy sewing project to use up my scraps! It's a pattern from the Merchant & Mills Sewing Book and it's a Hussif (fancy name for a travel sewing kit). Here's how I made it. 1. The fabric For this I used up my left over purple linen chambray (from making … Continue reading Hussif
I sew on a vintage Singer treadle machine, it's a 66K and I absolutely love it. However, it was not designed to sew knits. So when sewing knits I use a stretch thread called Mettler Seraflock and it works well, provided there's not too much stretch required. After searching for a solution, I came across … Continue reading O’ wondrous overlock machine: the Rubylock
Sew... it's lockdown time... Everyone keeps on saying how much extra time they have to sew while being stuck at home, but I'm really not finding that right now. I am a university lecturer and so I'm currently moving all my lectures online, reassuring students, trying to help students scattered around the world after traveling … Continue reading Sewing plans
As I mentioned in my Tania Culottes post, I was a bit intimidated by the Sew My Style 2020 bodysuit pattern so I decided not to make it. One of my worries was that a bodysuit would need to have a lot of stretch and I wasn't that confident sewing it without an overlocker or … Continue reading Simplicity 8513 Misses’ Knit Bodysuit
I live in an old house which has a tendency to become damp. My wardrobe is next to an outside wall and I don't want my lovely handmade clothes to go mouldy! So I decided to use up my fabric scraps to make these envelope-style wardrobe scent bags. 1. The fabric For the outer fabric … Continue reading Wardrobe scent bags
Guess what?! I've signed up to Sew My Style 2020 - it's a sewing challenge which each month selects two sewing patterns for you to make, and if you sign up then you also get discounts on the patterns. For January the challenge was to make either these Tania Culottes from Megan Neilson patterns, or … Continue reading Tania Culottes
Before you judge me for creating this, I want to clarify that this was an experiment and it is a work in progress! One of my long term goals is to make a well fitted shirt, and I recently bought David Page Coffin's "Sewing Shirts with a Perfect Fit" book. It's a great read, and … Continue reading Self-drafted blouse
Ikatee patterns very kindly give you a FREE sewing pattern when you sign up to their newsletter. So what is a sewist to do? Obviously I made it. The pattern is a children's summer blouse, which has ties for the shoulders and is quite easily customisable. I had a bit of fun with this - … Continue reading Ibiza toddler blouse
The sewing resolution 