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Me Made May week 4
We're nearly there! 22nd May - another outing for the Swirly Smoke Mortmain 23rd May - Polkadot theme and one of my first makes, the Gertie gathered skirt 24th May - Gertie Portrait blouse and Kate...
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Me Made May wrap up
So it's all over! Here are my final few days of outfits. Picmonkey isn't playing ball today so no pretty collage I'm afraid! 29th May - the Bowling dress 30th May - Burda cowl neck tee 31st May - Rose...
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Me Made Everyday!
After a conversation on Twitter (isn't that always how these things start?), a few of us were missing the community aspect of Me Made May and decided to start Me Made Everyday! I always find that...
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Minerva Blogger Network project - Sneak Preview!
Unless you've been living under a rock, you'll have heard about the Minerva meet up on Saturday. If not, details can be found here - it's going to be a great day! To celebrate, all of us bloggers on...
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Capital Chic patterns launches!
Today is an exciting day for one of our lovely Spoolettes! Sally who you will know as the genius refashioner Charity Shop Chic is launching her pattern line Capital Chic! Sally is known for her modern...
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Spring Sewing Swap
I was so excited to participate in the Spring Sewing Swap this year organised by the lovely Kerry from Kestrel Makes. It's one of the things I really loved when I first got into the world of sewing...
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Reveal - the Disco Apocalypse dress
Somewhat belatedly, here's my Minerva Crafts make for June (I thought I had already posted this, so it's even later than expected!) As you might remember we had to make a party dress to celebrate...
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Minerva Blogger Network - Vintage shirt dress
Hot on the heels of finally posting my reveal of my party dress, it's time for my July make.Cat photobomb! I've had this vintage pattern in my stash for about 6 months and just fell in love with the...
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Minerva Blogger Network - The Polkadot Frock
I love polkadots but realised recently I have hardly any polkadot items that are in regular rotation! When I saw this lovely navy polkadot stretch cotton on the Minerva site, I decided to rectify the...
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Minerva Blogger Network - the Staple Skirt
I've been thinking a lot about what items I need to make for winter to fill some wardrobe gaps and I realised I really needed a dark denim skirt. I ordered this dark denim from Minerva with the...
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The long awaited Moneta
I sewed this forever ago, but as you have probably noticed, finding time to blog things recently has been difficult! I made this Moneta from Colette Patterns for our holiday to Sicily back in August,...
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Operation winter coat is go!
I may not have been blogging too much due to work and general life busy-ness, but I have been sewing and planning quite a bit!The big project I am working on is a winter coat.I was looking for a fairly...
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The Grease Sewalong!
I'm co-hosting this month's sewalong on the Sewcialists blog, and it's a theme very close to my heart - Grease!Click here to read the post - and there's a competition too! Will you be joining in?
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Grease Inspiration
I've just put up my bad girl inspiration post for the Grease sewalong on the Sewcialists blog - head on over a have a read here!
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Topstitching help please
I mentioned on the post about my Peggy skirt that I had some issues with the topstitching. It looks ok from the right side (bar a few skipped stitches on the sections where there are a lot of layers):...
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Operation winter coat - the reveal!
So here is my final coat! I am so happy with it and it's an absolute pleasure to put it on every day. Of course the cost/effort per wear on a coat comes out pretty well which is satisfying! In this...
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My Christmas dress
This is my last vintage pledge make of 2014 and number 4 of the original 5 I pledged. Fittingly, the pattern came from Marie at Stitch Odyssey as she added it to the vintage pattern pyramid before it...
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Operation winter coat - fabric prep
As I had some lovely (and more expensive than usual) fabrics for this coat, I wanted to treat them right. Since I asked for a lot of advice and googled a fair bit, I thought my findings might be...
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Don't look back...
... in anger I heard you say. Now that you've got that earworm, let's pretend you are reading this post in early January when I meant to write it rather than the end of January when I actually did....
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Almost missed signing up this year - April has gone by so fast!I have struggled with pledging this year as I wear me mades most days anyway and since I wear a lot of dresses it tends to be a whole me...
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