This month’s sewing LOOK BOOKis all about activewear! With the New Year brings new challenges and we know that a lot of people are fearful of sewing with stretch. We have got some great posts coming up about sewing jersey and spandex but first we wanted to inspire you with the best activewear sewing patterns […]
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My wardrobe doesn’t actually look as bad as this, as I’m all for a bit of dramatic effect but it certainly needs a sort through. So when faced with a clear out, which is in no doubt a mammoth task, where do you start? We’ve put together some helpful tips to get your wardrobe organised […]
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This week we were featured in Sewing Made Simple with our favourite makes. On the blog we posted lots of FREE downloadsto organise your sewing supplies and scrap busting patternsthat need less than 1m of fabric. Also we couldn’t not mention Jenny @macljm (photo credit), Meg @pigeonwishes, Lucy @perledesigns, Dinushi @dinushi and Jenny @jennystitched who first met in […]
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After our post about organising your sewing supplies we were thinking about ways to use up those bits of fabric under a metre, they are the ones we seem to have the most of, not big enough for a dressmaking project.. or are they? We have searched through and found the best stash busting patterns for […]
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January is the perfect time to organise your sewing supplies to get ready for all the dressmaking and craft projects you will be doing in 2016! To help get your sewing patterns and fabric stash organised we’ve designed some free downloadable tools to get you started. These include Fabric stash tags, Button cards, Ribbon and trim cards, […]
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We have lots of exciting plans for 2016 including the start of a FREE year long sewing course called The Pattern Tutorials, which will cover everything to do with using sewing patterns from fabric types to fitting adjustments. We kick off with the first post on fabric types to accompany our. We also posted our […]
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The pattern envelope: Fabric types This is the first of a new 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 the […]
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Despite the run up to Christmas there were plenty of new sewing pattern releases in December. Keeping track of all the new pattern releases can be tough so we’ve put together a bitesized round up for December with the lovely Fiona of Diary of a Chainstitcher blog @diaryofachainstitcher. Fiona has a great sewing blog where she showcases her makes with really […]
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We hope you’ve had a lovely Christmas and Happy New Year! In the last couple of weeks we’ve eaten far too many mince pies but this has not stopped us putting together our sewing highlights of 2015(and gosh there were loads!) or gathering together the boxing day sewing salesfor you and bringing out New Year’s […]
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!! We hope that you have all had lovely Christmases and are feeling ready to take on 2016. To give you all a little inspiration we have asked some of your favourite bloggers and designers to share with us their sewing resolutions for the year. We love hearing what everyone has planned so […]
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