Paintscape - An English Paper Piecing Sewing Pattern
Flossie Teacakes
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11M ago
Finally, a new English paper piecing pattern. If you recognise it, it's because it's based on the 5am Life Wave piece I made in 2018, although I've adjusted the pattern pieces a little for this version to make them more user-friendly.  This pattern really provides a canvas for you to paint your own design onto - the small triangles allow you to throw in pops of colour, while the misshapen pieces running along the edge of each block give a fractured rain-on-windowpanes feel.  You can use as many blocks as you'd like to create your design, and the pattern comes complete with a co ..read more
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2y ago
A quick post to invite you to sign up to my newsletter, Off Topic, where I’ll be sharing a mix of book, boxset & podcast chat; things that have made me laugh (or cry); random thoughts and anecdotes; other makers’ work; discoveries in the stationery department…and maybe even some occasional stitching (that being on topic, so technically out of bounds), delivered straight to your inbox. I’m not sure I would have previously imagined a newsletter feeling like a perfect medium, but over the last few years I’ve gradually subscribed to more and more, and the ones that drop into my inbox now fe ..read more
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Kielo Wrap Dress
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3y ago
I've done a lot of undocumented dressmaking over the last two summers, and although I hadn't been intending to post about those things retrospectively, this afternoon I was discussing the merits of Named Clothing's Kielo Wrap Dress pattern with my friend Sally, and realised I didn't want to leave this particular pattern unevangelised, so here we are.  It's called a wrap dress, but it isn't the kind of wrapping that risks full thigh-exposure if the wind blows the wrong way or you need to run for a bus - quite the opposite - it's more like you're a present that's being wrapped with a doubl ..read more
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A Liberty Print Map of the World
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3y ago
It was a lovely thing to discover people are still reading blogs in the comments to my last post - thank you so much for letting me know :) I thought I'd drop in and share a few photos of the project I'm currently working on, which is a Liberty print map of the world (that's Africa above).  I spent several months thinking about this project before I began, pondering what size the map would need to be for all the names of the countries to fit in, how I was going to colour the map, and other bits and bobs. I ended up chatting through some of those things with a map maker, who told me th ..read more
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A year later...
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3y ago
It's fourteen months since I last posted, and the last 12 have been spent in lockdown of varying degrees...I'm really not sure how to cover that one. It's like when someone says, 'What have you been up to?' and you feel so overwhelmed by the enormity of the question - do you go for 'breathing', 'watching Bridgerton', 'panic-buying loo rolls', or give the full low-down on 'discovering you have a long-lost brother whose been raised by wolves until recently' (only some of these apply; I'm just demonstrating the levels on which such a question could be answered), but ultimately, 'Oh, I don't kno ..read more
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Greetings Cards
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3y ago
It's a week away from Christmas and the year seems to have disappeared in a flurry of university visits with my daughter and then returning for interviews - it's been a really delicious whistle-stop* tour of the UK that's left me with lots of time to wander around new places, although sometimes I have also just chosen to sit - on one occasion, looking out to sea from the window of our B&B (totally dreamy), and on another in a cafe eating toast, wondering how she was getting on and feeling she'd found the perfect city to live in, too heavy-shouldered to continue exploring because of my ne ..read more
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Fabric Destash
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3y ago
I'm posting here a little belatedly, so quite a bit has already flown the nest, but I'm doing a little fabric de-stashing over on Etsy. To give you a taster, above is a collection of beautiful Tula Pinks (some quite rare), and below some prints by Rifle Paper for Cotton + Steel.  There are also some lots that are sorted entirely by colour, which are good for putting straight into a quilt top, or bulking out a stash that's lacking in that colour department.  I'll be posting things out on Monday and will refund any excess postage paid then :)  Wishing you a lovely weekend ..read more
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Your Own Exceptional Talent
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3y ago
Last week, I finally remade a top that fell at the last hurdle two years ago when I realised I'd forgotten to interface the button placket. I don't really know how I forgot, but I do remember that when I came to slice those button holes open they inevitably looked like wild beasts had mauled them. I'm grateful that my 2019 version, above, was more of a success. On the subject of failure and subsequent success (a tenuous link as I have way bigger failures up my sleeve than ruined buttonholes),  I've been working my way through the archives of Elizabeth Day's How to Fail podcast recently ..read more
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Pattern Drafting Failure
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3y ago
Several years ago, as I walked out through the door after my final lesson on pattern cutting at The London College of Fashion, our lovely teacher called after us, 'Use it or lose it, ladies'. Her voice comes into my head now, when I realise I haven't used it and now the hundreds of hours of pattern cutting knowledge I'd once accumulated seem to have fallen out of my head while writing my book and madly English paper piecing everything in sight. I can now see there would have been real merit in taking some time out from those things occasionally to do some maintenance pattern drafting, but I ..read more
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Pierre Bonnard and Other Things...
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3y ago
Last week, I went to the Pierre Bonnard exhibition at Tate Modern in London. It was gorgeous and the paintings featuring wallpapers and fabrics doubly so - I'm unsure how a painting of a floral wallpaper should be so much more captivating than one of an actual flowering landscape, but somehow it is (to me, at least). We played our own game of Where's Wally, spotting Bonnard's wife and companion Marthe, who featured in many of his paintings, although not always prominently. Often we'd think it was a painting where Marthe hadn't snuck in, only to find her out on the balcony visible through a w ..read more
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