I’m playing slight catch up with these blog posts as I have recently been back at work, and as you might have seen on my instagram, we have a newbie in the household. His name is Grady, and he is the grand old age of 17 weeks (maybe now 18) adopted from Cats Protection in …
I feel like I say this a lot, but it was time to face my fears again. I was very aware that I was running out of time with my three month Sew Over It Stitch School subscription, and I had bought some gorgeous Ponte Roma fabric from Textile Express to complete the SOI Emma …
In my visit to the pop up shop in Nottingham, I had found a McCalls pattern (M7084) for a shirt dress with different variations in style. This was one of my bargain patterns as it was in their sale for £4 and I fell in love with the style! I had bought a similar style …
Attempt to make a t-shirt with it. Or sell it and buy some lemons. This was my big moment. Moving away from the safe and comfortable standard cottons, and onto a knit fabric: the pineapple cotton jersey. It was a thing of beauty and got a lot of compliments when I first bought it. The …
Having made a second pair of the pyjama shorts pattern from Sew Over It in a gorgeous Rose and Hubble polkadot cotton poplin, I decided that they needed a matching top. I’d bought a pattern for a New Look top, so I thought if I was ever going to have a first attempt at an …
This blog post is dedicated to the Alderley Cami (pattern by Sew Over It) which, when I looked at the instructions, looked like one of the most daunting pieces of clothing I might ever choose to make. The words “cut on the bias” sent chills down my spine, knowing that this was going to be …
As you’ve read in my last blog, a week in and I was now a sewing pro on the old bedsheets. Time to pluck up the courage to make things using prettier and “proper” fabric. Rewind the intro to sewing course and to the familiar cushion cover, this time in some nice bright tartan fabric. …
