Author: Annie

This is my entry for the RTW Designer Knockoff Contest.
 Let me tell you, it is no fun having your photo next to a gorgeous model! How can one compare? 
Maybe a wig would help.
 I did a bit of research on the net and magazines to see what trends are current now and starting pinning a […]

Woo hoo! My dress has made it into the final for the Burdastyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest.I didn’t intend for this dress to be the “one” for my entry because I didn’t read the fine print where it said you can only enter one dress. I had plans on making another amazing out fit to […]

This is my second project out of the BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern book. I really loved the look of the bell sleeves on this top, very “hippy, bohemian” inspired. I had a gorgeous black Japanese 100% Cotton seersucker with self print and eyelet detail in my stash which I had picked up from Tessuti a while ago and thought this would […]

Sewing enthusiasts please check out this music video made with embroidery and sewing implements. Is this  Directed, filmed, and produced by Christophe Thockler the clip uses 10,000 photographs of needles, thread, cloth and embroidery, mixed with clever lighting techniques to produce a fun video for Favorite Place, the latest track by US pop rock band […]

If you are like me and a wee bit on the short side, you will most likely need to hem most of your jeans. Even though I am a sewer, I dread doing it for some reason. Perhaps it’s the mundanenus of it. But hemming jeans to fit is a cinch and you can save […]

This is my spin on the Vintage Modern Jamie Shift Dress for the “BurdaStyle Sewing Vintage Modern Contest 2013”. I started by ordering the book from Amazon. I was so excited to get started as all the patterns look amazing and not that difficult. There are so many projects I am going to make from […]

Today I had a stall at the Camberwell Markets, a very popular flea market in Melbourne. Back in September which is the start of spring for us here in Australia, I decided that I would have a clean up and book a stall. Getting a stall is not easy but perseverance pays off. I had a […]

Happy New Year! We spent the New Year at Flinders on the Mornington Peninsula with our friends. The boys were so excited to be seeing there special friend Mischa. I have given Mischa a few home sewn projects in the past and she has absolutely loved them. When someone get so much joy it’s not […]

I made this skirt a few months ago for my partners dads’ wife or sort of my mother in law except we are not married. Not easy to explain is it?Anyway, I made it for a friend, Sonia. Sonia really loved the tutti frutti skirt I made last year for a friends little girl and […]