dress

Finally I am back to my sewing after a long hiatus. After the enormous amount of sewing I did for the School fete I needed a break. I had developed a really bad back from sitting at the sewing machine for hours on end and basically couldn’t even look at my sewing machine without my […]

This is the final week for the sew along at Project Sewn. The challenge this week is to create your “signature style”. I have been just far too busy this week to create something new as our School Fete is on this Sunday and I am heading up the Craft Mama’s so every waking hour […]

It’s week number three in Project Sewn’s sew along competition. This week the theme is “graphic print challenge”. Before I go on you can vote here from Friday October 18th until Sunday October 21st (give or take depending on which country you live in). I had plenty of graphic prints in my stash because I […]

As you can see from this post I am not in the midst of a cold Melbourne winter, I am in fact in balmy Bali on a family holiday. My sister had a significant birthday (fifty, ouch) and invited family and friends to join her in Bali. Of course we jumped at the chance to […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

I joined sew weekly  a few weeks ago and the upcoming challenge was to sew something blue. I just so happen to have a gorgeous blue spot double knit which I have been wanting to sew into a 40’s /50’s style dress. I picked up the fabric from Tessuti who featured my dress on their blog […]