Keeping the memories alive…
CRAFT Sewing CATEGORY Clothing PATTERN DETAIL Tunic from Simplicity 2917 pattern MADE FOR Me FABRIC DETAILS Printed polycotton & Ponte de Roma START/FINISH January 2024 I’ve had this pattern a while now, it’s a style of dress I love and it suits my body shape well. It is a fit and flare style with princess seams, both front and back having four pattern pieces. After having had problems with previous patterns and sizing, I decided …
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So, after sewing on the kitchen table for long enough, I decided that I would turn the spare bedroom into my craft space. There is no bed in it, as since I had some fitted wardrobes built a few years ago there is no room for a permanent bed. We do have an inflatable mattress for if anyone does ever need to stay but in reality, the only person who uses the room besides me …
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This is another pattern from Simply Sewing magazine and I used the same cotton lawn as I did for the Sofia Dress but in a different colour, this is sadly another failure! My waist is much smaller than my hips so I’m not sure a wrap skirt would ever work for my body shape, or perhaps I needed to make my darts larger to bring the waist measurement in. Being inexperienced though, I wasn’t to …
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CRAFT Sewing CATEGORY Clothing PATTERN DETAIL Sofia Dress from Simply Sewing Mag MADE FOR Me FABRIC DETAILS Red paisley pattern cotton lawn from Pound Fabrics START/FINISH July 2023 I bought this magazine for this pattern, I just thought it looked a really lovely dress pattern. However I underestimated my ability to understand a dressmaking pattern and to start with, I really struggled to figure out what size to make and how to put it all …
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This year I’ve told Patrick that we are going to make sure and do something out of our ordinary routine at least once each month. We often go out for tea and go to the theatre here in Hull so those things won’t count towards our 12 in 12 challenge. We do however spend lots of our weekends at home, we’re not sitting around idle, I’m sewing or some other crafting, or perhaps working on …
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