Well, it finally looks like we might be moving house in the next few weeks, which is the reason my blog has been rather neglected of late! My recently finished shirt is too good not to share though, so I have taken a break from all the decluttering and boring moving admin to dust off my camera and laptop and tell you all about it.
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Hopethea Dress
This beautiful and unusual fabric has been in my stash since last summer and I have have been uncharacteristically indecisive about what to make with it. It’s a viscose crinkle cloqué that I bought from The New Craft House and as is the nature of deadstock fabric – once it’s gone, it’s gone!
Nepheline Blouse
In preparation for moving house (if that actually happens), I have been trying to work my way through some fabrics in my stash and not add anything new! I’m dithering a bit about a couple of cuts that I haven’t settled on a pattern for, but this fabric was always going to be this blouse, so it was an obvious project to tick off my list and move from my sewing room to my wardrobe.
Orchards Dress #2
I absolutely love my first version of the Vivian Shao Chen Orchards Dress – it’s actually one of my favourite garments I have ever made! I said it would be a pattern I would come back to and I wasn’t wrong.
LB Pullover
Sewing time has continued to be pretty limited this month, but I managed to fit in a couple of hours to whip up one of my #makenine2023 projects – the Paper Theory LB Pullover!
Studio Tunic
I decided to do another term of pottery classes this year and thought the Sew Liberated Studio Tunic would be the perfect project to bring my two interests together, so I added it to my #makenine2023 plans.
Make Nine 2023
Happy New Year! I absolutely love planning my sewing projects (almost as much as completing them), so January really is my time to shine. My favourite planning tool to use is a #makenine.
Hesat Blouse
I’m sure if you’ve been following my sewing for any length of time you’ll know that I’m an enormous fan of the brand I Am Patterns. They recently launched their ‘I Am Divine’ collection and as soon as I saw the new designs I immediately added two of them to my ‘to sew’ list!
Hovea Quilted Jacket
I had a wonderful time making the patchwork jacket for my Great British Sewing Bee inspired challenge and I have worn it a lot, but the cropped length and sleeves meant it wasn’t going to see me through the winter. Fortunately, I got the Megan Nielsen Hovea pattern for Christmas and had added the quiltedContinue reading “Hovea Quilted Jacket”
Ninni Culottes
It’s always very exciting when a designer you love invites you to collaborate with them and I’ve been lucky enough to work with Atelier Jupe on a few projects now. Eva and Petra got in touch recently to share some sneak peeks of their latest collection (spoiler alert – I loved EVERYTHING) and asked if I would like to sew something up prior to the launch.