I was fortunate enough to win this lovely pattern, The Lazy Jumpsuit from Tropical Research during the SewApril2023 sewing challenge hosted by Ryliss at Sewing and Design School. I was immediately taken with the casual elegance of it. I chose it because I thought it would be useful in spring and early summer and felt […]
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Little Miss G loves cats, which she calls Meow Meows (she thinks this is the name of her own cat too, whose real name is Felix), so I thought I’d make her a tee shirt with a cat on it. Then she said she wanted a purple pig (another obsession), so I made that first. […]
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The September theme for Make a Garment a Month over on IG is “Scrounging” and this blouse is properly scrounged – I think I appropriated it from Sarah (workspace fads) studio. I can’t remember whether I fished it out of a bin or just stuffed it up my jumper, but I’m pretty sure I was […]
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I consider myself a garment sewer but occasionally I will make something a bit different. Over the last two days I’ve made some things that are a bit out of the ordinary for me. First up is a knife roll for Archie to take on a road/camping trip. I was a bit hopeful I could […]
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The latest issue of Fibremood magazine (Edition 25) is out and there are some really lovely patterns in it. This time I chose the Ulima which means “astute or wise”; well I think I was pretty wise to choose this lovely pattern, which is a little different from my usual choices, and which will be […]
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When I cut out the Fibremood Quilla from the gorgeous silk damask tablecloth, I also cut one from a vintage cotton damask tablecloth and the two couldn’t be more different. I cut out the pieces and then played with shibori stitching. I did folds and a pattern of stitching (to be honest, I’ve forgotten what […]
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I’ve been busy indigo dyeing and some of the shibori techniques require a “buffer” which is a small piece of fabric stitched at the beginning and end of the shibori to create a clean beginning and end. I finished up with quite a few interesting pieces of fabric that were too small to do much […]
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I’ve been busy sewing but not much blogging, which I thought I’d better rectify. Some time ago I was given a set of three vintage tablecloths (from the 1950s or 1960s perhaps) made from silk damask; a little one, a medium one and a big one. They are exquisite, but they’ve seen some good times […]
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Immediately after I finished the Fibres West 2023 residential programme, I was lucky enough to take someone’s spot in Cathy Moon’s two day Shibori class. It was fabulous and I’ve been completely distracted by the process ever since. I did the class with Megan from Meggipeg, and did enjoy the handstitching elements. It’s so exciting […]
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As mentioned in a previous post, when I was doing the Mordant Printing Workshop with Julie Ryder at Fibres West 2023 I found the front and the back of a top. With permission from Julie, I painted it with mordant and dyed it with marigold. I’ve never done mordant printing before and I have to […]
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