This year I made a New Years Resolutions list! Ive gone years without making even one NY resoultion and here I am with a bucket load! My main one is learn how to use my Bernina 770s sewing machine, more specifically how to use the button hole function and while Im at it I should also learn how to put a zip in. Why I have such resistance to watching a few minutes on you tube or opening up the manual, I have no idea. Anyway 2020 will see me learning all about my amazing machine and what it can do for me. Number 2 sewing resolution is to sew in 20 mins blocks: this was something I dabbled w ..read more

New Christmas Fabric from John Lewis Oxford Street I happened to be showing Little One the christmas lights in oxford street when I realised how close I was to John Lewis, so off we went for a look. I wasn’t going to buy but then I saw these 2 beauties and all was lost. The red one i bought 2 meters and made a long table runner for our dinning room table and the white one (that looks oddly pink in all the photos) with birds and glitter was for our eldest as I wanted to make her a table cloth, for her expanding kitchen table. As I have mentioned before I have lost my sewjo and decided t ..read more

Little One who is not so little now needed a new dressing gown. In the past I made her 2, one from fleece and one from towelling, both cut from the same simplicity pattern and the same size when she was 2. Making a dressing gown I have not idea how that they have lasted till she was 7! but they are rather short. So as I knew the pattern was a good one but only went up to age 3, i decided to re draft it and make it bigger. Super soft minky fleece dressing gown I loved that the ties were sewn into the side seams so the belt can never come off! I also let Little One pick her own fabri ..read more

Little one is going to be 7 years old and she had already told me exactly what she wanted and she had even drawn it…no pressure then. when she was little she used to call big skirts on dresses, super wide and the term has stuck. Skirt and bodice cut out Im lucky to have a large dinning room table, which can seat 16 but I use it to cut out all my projects and its handy when, every year I make a super wide birthday dress. As Her birthstone is a ruby she wanted that to be the theme. I then had a look through my stash to see if I had any suitable fabric before we went shopping. I did ..read more

Its that time of year again and Little One wants a princess of everthing dress…once again no pressure! She decided this year for her 6th Birthday she wanted a the simplicity pattern that was of Belle from beauty and the beast, in rainbow colours. the original Belle Dress pattern Somehow I found rainbow satin and rainbow chiffon in 2 different shops (World of Sewing in Tunbridge Wells and The Range in Maidstone, Kent) Then I thought I know this is the most complicated dress I have ever made, i think I should pattern match…what was I thinking Pattern matching the rainbow The ..read more