Back in December, Camilla sent me a lovely little parcel for my birthday. It contained the Green Bee Frances dress pattern and some gorgeous Denyse Schmidt fabric. Due to having visitors over Christmas, I hardly got any sewing done at all so once my parents had gone home, I was itching to get something made up – I knew this would be the pattern to make up first!
Continue reading ➞ First Make Of 2016 – Frances Dress
Here it is! Here is my stash! It’s not a huge stash but there’s a good amount of fabric there that needs to be used. I set a couple of fabric related goals for the year; to use my stash and to think carefully about the fabrics that are suitable for certain garments.
Continue reading ➞ Stash Busting
The office for our apartments closed for Christmas. Of course, my #stitchingsanta present was delivered on the final day they were open…when I was out and I didn’t get back in time to pick it up before they closed! 😦 I was sad because I knew we were going away the morning after Christmas so I wouldn’t be able to open it until we got back on the 29th!!! Can you guess what I did first when we got back from Vegas?? I OPENED IT OF COURSE!!
Now my stitching santa was lovely Abi over at The Freckled Fashionista! Abi did sooooo well putting the gifts together and I absolutely LOVE everything! Thank you so much Abi!
I did have a sneaky suspicion that Abi was my santa. She posted a blog post with some presents wrapped with doggy paper and some English themed fabric. Well, I have a dog, I lived in England and I now live in the US so I thought that it may be for me and it was! I was so pleased when I opened the parcel because everything was wrapped up brilliantly – the wrapping paper was gorgeous!
Continue reading ➞ Thank You Stitching Santa!
Trousers have been on my ‘take make’ list for a while and I had been putting off making them for a while too. A few weeks ago, I decided to bite the bullet and go for it. My pattern of choice was the Cigarette Pant pattern from the Gertie Sews Vintage Casual book.
As usual, before making a garment, I tend to research it online to see if there are any fitting issues and tips for construction. With this pattern, I only managed to find 3 bloggers who had reviewed them – there were a lot of reviews for the Butterick 5895’s, which were designed by Gertie…but these were different form the ones in the book so I didn’t really want to take note of those fitting issues as they were not the same trousers!
Continue reading ➞ I did it! I Made Trousers 🙂
Just over a month ago, I made my first Bonnell dress from Dixie DIY. I knew that this was the dress I was going to make for my Art Gallery Fabric project so I really wanted to make the fit of the dress perfect. For the very first dress, I used a pink & green floral cotton with a plain purple cotton lining. I shortened the bodice pattern by 1 inch as I’ve now gathered that I need to do this for most dress bodices. The rest of the pattern was cut out in a size 10.
Continue reading ➞ Bonnell Dresses: My First Pattern Alterations
Here we are – the first post into the second year of Sunday Sevens! Woohoo!
Last week’s post was the giveaway so I haven’t actually shown any of my photos for 2 weeks. So these photos are from the last 2 weeks and there’s more than 7 too! Enjoy 🙂
1. We had a trip to the Melting Pot and I enjoyed the cheese & chocolate courses far too much!
Continue reading ➞ Sunday Sevens #53
threads + bobbins 