Archive for the ‘Planning’ Category
I’ve always loved colour blocking. And yet I haven’t made a great many colour blocked garments. It’s difficult to find suitable fabric combinations and even harder to place the colours in a pleasing way. I’ve been thinking about this a bit lately because the October issue of Burda provided an excellent example of the pitfalls. […]
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Tags: Burda, colour-block, colour-blocking, Dressmaking, Sewing, Vogue
Jumpsuits
After making four knit dresses in a row I finally feel like tackling a woven project. I am also still in need of interesting clothes that I can cycle in. I’ve been gradually improving my cycle friendly wardrobe over the last year, but I find myself wearing my Burda jeans a minimum of once a […]
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Tags: Burda, Dressmaking, Inspiration, Patterns, Planning, Sewing, Style
Anyone remember this Guy Laroche jacket, V1335 from the autumn 2012 Vogue patterns? The considered opinion of the blogosphere at the time was that it is ridiculous, but I confess I’ve always rather liked the style. It’s had a place on my sewing shortlist ever since it came out. I got some bargain wool melton […]
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Tags: Dressmaking, guy laroche, jacket, Sewing, Vogue
2012 inspirations and 2013 goals
I’m running a bit late with this, given that it’s now 12th night so we’re well into 2013. But here are the last two top fives! It is really difficult to pick only five bloggers that inspired me in 2012. I get half my sewing inspiration from other people’s blogs. But here are five who […]
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Tags: 2012, 2012 review, 2013, 2013 plans, Dressmaking, Planning, Sewing, top fives
Oooh sparkly
This is about a dress that is coming about purely through luck. Back in November Marie and Kat organised a blogger meetup in Birmingham. It was a lot of fun and amongst other things I came back with this fabric, a doubleknit with a metallic fibre on one side. I didn’t spot it myself; Kat […]
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Tags: Dressmaking, fabric, Sewing, Style, Vogue
On changing my mind
The coat project rumbles on. But something far more exciting happened that I want to tell you about first: I was interviewed by Joanne of Stitch and Witter! She’s been doing a series of interviews with sewing bloggers about their personal style. I’ve been realy enjoying reading it, and I’m so flattered to be picked. […]
Filed under: Burda 104-12-2011 coat, Dressmaking, Fabric, Patterns, Planning, Sewing | 17 Comments
Tags: coat, Dressmaking, fabric, Sewing
Birmingham blogger meetup
Saturday was such a great day. Marie and Kat organised a sewing blogger meetup in Birmingham. Check out Marie’s blog post for pictures. We shopped, ate noodles, swapped a ton pf patterns and fabric, and then shopped some more. But absolutely the best bit was talking to like-minded sewists all day about fabric, sewing, and […]
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Tags: Dressmaking, fabric, Patterns, Sewing, Shopping
