Those By Hand London ladies really know how to do their party dresses.
Behold, the Kim!
The Kim comes with two neckline and two skirt variations: I used the sweetheart neckline and the tulip skirt, because...
It's Thanksgiving today in the United States, and although I'm not American, I have come to have a fondness for this holiday of my adopted home. One of the nicest things about it (apart...
The never-ending green coat of doom is DONE! My goodness, that was an epic project. I started off foolishly thinking it would be fairly straightforward, because I used the same pattern, Simplicity 1759, as I...
Between work travel and illness it's been an age since I sat down at a sewing machine, let alone finished anything, so in a short period of feeling better (sadly crap again now) I...
Ah, work travel, you fickle beast, keeping me away from sewing and finishing up that damn coat.
On the plus side though, new fabric shops to visit!
Last week, I popped into San Francisco (en route...
The apparently never ending cashmere coat saga continues! But is, thank heavens, nearing completion. So after all the interfacing-ripping and re-steaming and shaping, I found that the upper side panel (above the dart) was now...
Everyone's sprogging! And if there are new sprogs that means that new baby gifts are in order. I got this one down pat a while ago: applique baby quilts are easy, speedy and fun...
