Author: Annie

This is my entry for the Tessuti Awards 2013. The brief was to create a knee length (or just above) dress that’s all about the WOW and NOW factor. Something that would fabulous at a red carpet event, swanky cocktail party, the races or a fancy formal wedding. You must use either their Flame Red […]

This is a denim Capelet I drafted and made a few months back. I was inspired by the Burberry capelets I have seen in the mags and online. I haven’t drafted many patterns in the past few years so it was a nice easy project to get my head back into it. I used Pattern making […]

I have not been doing a lot of sewing lately. I think there are a number of reasons. It’s winter and I like sewing summery stuff.  I race bikes and have been doing a lot of training lately and I started making a tailored jacket that I have got sick of so can’t seem to get beyond […]

I have decided to join the memademay’13 challenge this year as I am one of those sewers (probably one of many) who makes up all of these fab outfits and never wears them! Why is that I wonder? Most likely because I find some gorgeous fabric and gorgeous dress pattern, fantasise about how fantastic it […]

Ok, I know this is a blog about my sewing but I am so proud of my son at the moment that I just have to share with my fellow sewers.My seven year old son Oliver raised money for the Childrens Cancer Center by having his hair shaved off.He initiated the idea himself and raised […]

Tessuti are currently running a sewing competition using their fabric called “Gridlock”. You can sew anything you like using this fabric for your chance to win $1000! Sounds great, so of course I went online and ordered a couple of meters. I was in the middle of sewing my Hot Summer Rose outfit when the comp […]

I love the name of this fabric “Hot summer Roses”. I picked it up from Tessuti last year. I think they have sold out now. It is a cotton/spandex mix which is machine washable… bonus! I have a tendency to buy fabrics that need dry cleaning and tend not to wear them as I can’t be bothered with […]

My challenge today was to create a Batman outfit in roughly two hours. Why? Because I promised my son that I would buy him a new Batman outfit for not crying when I dropped him off at School. Poor little fella, he just started Prep this year and has not been coping very well at all. […]

 I purchased this fabric from Tessuti about a year ago. It’s a gorgeous Dolce and Gabbana 100% silk satin from Italy. It was a very expensive fabric but there was a bit of a special on at the time so I bought a couple of meters to stash away. I hung on to it for a while because I was never […]