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Remnant Sale!
Just a quick post for any London based fabric lovers (which after the awesome meet up at the weekend I know is quite a few!). The Berwick Street Cloth Shop, The Silk Society and Broadwick Silks (all...
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Giveaway!
It's time for my very first giveaway!According to Bloglovin' I've just reached 50 followers! Well actually that big number has passed by in a sudden surge which I'm putting down to Rachel's fantastic...
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Me-Made-May '13!
After much umming and ahhhing I've decided to go for it and participate in Me-Made-May this year! I don't really feel like I have enough of a me-made wardrobe to be giving this a go, well at least not...
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Giveaway Winners!
The big moment has arrived and it's time to announce the winners of my little giveaway to celebrate passing 50 followers!I've used the random number generator to pick the lucky winners so without...
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Me-Made-May Week 1!
So I'm a little behind on recording my Me-Made-May - well a lot considering we have just passed the end of week two! It's not the wearing handmade garments aspect of it that I'm finding challenging but...
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A Special Circle-Skirted Elisalex
This dress is special for three reasons: 1. It was made to be worn to my boyfriend's brother's wedding last Friday, 2. It was made using fabric from Mood NYC purchased on my recent trip of a lifetime,...
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Me-Made-May Week 2!
I'm still going and I'm still enjoying it! I was super excited about Me-Made-May this week as I was going to get to wear my very special Elisalex dress to my boyfriend's brother's wedding! This in fact...
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Black Lace Scout Tee
This is the third time I've made up Grainline's Scout Tee pattern and I can see many more in the future! It's a great basic pattern which looks lovely made up as is (as I did for my first version in...
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Me-Made-May Week 3! (and Gatsby!)
So I completely failed in my attempt to wear jeans less, well at least when wearing me-made. I did wear ready to wear dresses a few times this week, I have a lot of comfy jersey dresses in my wardrobe...
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Pin It Forward!
Today I've got a little post for you about one of my favourite things on the internet, Pinterest! They've just launched in the UK but I've been using the original version for a while. I'm sure many of...
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Me-Made-May Week 4 (and a bit!) and Roundup
As the month of May is just over four weeks and my challenge involved wearing a certain number of handmade items per week I've included those extra few days in this last post and did four instead of...
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Floral Simplicity 2444
I am sure that you, like me have seen a lot of this pattern from the Project Runway line floating around the internet (just check out these gorgeous versions by Cynthia and Dibs as well as Roisin's...
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Liberty Lawn Tiny Pocket Tank
During Me-Made-May, although I was wearing jeans too much, I decided a lot of the time for me they are my only practical option therefore I needed to make some more casual everyday tops. My favourite...
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A Practice Polkadot Elisalex
It has taken me a LONG time to get around to posting around this dress, it was fully completed before I made my Circle-Skirted version and since that I've completed three other projects! I think that...
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Thank You!
So I've got quite a few very deserved thank you's to be saying to you lovely sewing ladies (and gentlemen if there are any reading!). Reading your blogs and comments and just being involved in this...
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Indie Pattern Month!
Kat from Modern Vintage Cupcakes came up with the brilliant idea of 'Indie Pattern Month', a chance for us sewing bloggers to celebrate the talents of the ever increasing number of independent sewing...
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Bye Bye Google Reader
Just a quick post today readers to remind you all that as of Monday Google Reader is no more. So if use it to keep up with your favourite blogs you'll need to switch to a new RSS feed. I've been using...
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A Hawaiian Lonsdale (and love of all things sewing!)
I've been sewing up a storm recently so got quite a bit of catching up to do here on the blog! It's feeling surprisingly like summer in these parts at the moment so I've been making the most of it and...
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Club to Catwalk - London Fashion in the 1980s at the V&A
On Tuesday I popped along to the new exhibition at the V&A and as it was clothing related I thought it was worth a little mention on here! The fashions exhibited are all at the more extreme...
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