Meeting other people who love sewing at a local sewing group is great fun. You can chat about sewing patterns, get help with your latest makes and indulge in some tea and cake. It’s a brilliant way to improve your skills, discover new patterns and fabrics and have some fun. Thanks to lots of you […]
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Tilly and the Buttons – Stretch! – new sewing book review This week on the blog we are chatting to Tilly and the Buttons about her new sewing book “Stretch”, which is out this week. We headed over to Tilly Towers a couple of weeks ago to get an insider peek at all the […]
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The Sewing Pattern Tutorials is a year-long FREE sewing course where we will demystify dressmaking patterns. We’ll begin with the basics so that if you are new to sewing you can join in from the start. We also know that lots of you want to learn new sewing skills so as we progress we’ll begin to cover more complex topics […]
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This week we are doing a sewing book review of the brand spanking new book ‘Sew Your Own Activewear‘ written by Melissa Fehr. Melissa has a sewing pattern company Fehr Trade, which specialises in activewear sewing patterns so you will be in safe hands as she guides us through the magical land of Lyrca. […]
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Are you looking for creative challenges to kick start your sewing mojo in 2018? We’ve discovered a few exciting new sewing challenges for the start of the year to help plan your wardrobe, connect with other sewists and join in with the sewing community to make a positive change. It’s time to get sewing! 2018 […]
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Welcome to The Sew Down where each month we bring you a run down of some of the interesting stuff we have found and bought in the world of sewing! We will be talking fabric hauls, new sewing patterns and sharing some of the interesting things we have seen, eaten, listened to and sewn over […]
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We all love sewing but often it’s hard to pin point exactly what it is that makes us enjoy this hobby so much. It’s not just the pleasure we get from sewing itself but being creative is good for you in lots of ways. It’s also a great way to meet new people and make […]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We hope that you all had lovely breaks and that if you were back at work this week it wasn’t too painful! The start of the year usually signifies a load of new sewing plans, we’ve contacted some of your favourite sewing peeps and asked them to share their New Year’s Sewing […]
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