On Thursday 8th September, Her Majesty the Queen passed away peacefully at Balmoral. She had been Queen for 70 years, making her the UK’s longest reigning monarch. Her reign was even longer than that of Queen Victoria’s, which lasted for 63 years. Lots of people have been affected…
In some ways, September feels more like the beginning of a new year than January does. Lots of years of school and university, then being a teacher, and now having school aged children makes it hard to escape the squeaky new shoes feeling that September has. My older…
This post contains affiliate links. For those of you who have been following along for a while, it will probably come as no surprise if I tell you that my garden is a crazy mess. It’s a sunny little spot, and only the size of a postage stamp….
This post contains affiliate links. One of my youngest boy’s favourite things to do at the moment is to make tie dyed t shirts, and it’s easy to see why. As well as looking fabulous, at 9 years old he’s experiencing what those who are makers feel every…
A toile, also known as a muslin in the USA, is a prototype of a garment. In the design process, it sits in between drafting pattern pieces and the finished version. The toile allows the designer to check that the idea in his or her head will actually…
Inspiration is weird. Sometimes it comes from the weirdest of places. Other times it might come from somewhere you’d expect, like Pinterest or somebody else’s blog, but once it has been processed through the weirdness in one’s brain, ends up as a bonkers idea. This is what happened…