Tips For Sewing a Winter Dress From a Summer Pattern When you find a pattern you like, do you make lots of versions of it in different fabrics? It’s taken me a while to find my comfy spot clothes wise, but now I’ve found it, I have lots…
DIY Winter Dress Tutorial It always makes me a little bit sad at the end of the summer when I have to put away my pretty dresses and dig out my dreary, sensible winter things instead. This year has been a good year for the pretty dresses. Not…
Halter Neck Dress Without a Pattern: Sewing the Dress This post is a little bit overdue! Back in the summer when the weather was warm (sigh!) I made this. I’d seen a dress on Pinterest that I rather liked. Actually I saw dozens I liked, but this was…
Halter Neck Dress Without a Pattern: Drafting the Pattern Having a wardrobe full of clothes that are too big has been the perfect excuse to make new things for myself! When the weather’s warm enough, I love my vintage style dresses. It’s not easy to find these in…
How to Design and Make a Dress Have you ever considered that it might just be possible to design and make a dress from scratch? One of the best things about being able to sew is making your own clothes. How many times have you been shopping and…
Tote Bag Tutorial Here’s a tote bag tutorial! I’m not going to say an awful lot about this, except that I’ve made 2 of these bags for a teacher. They’re the correct size for carrying A4 exercise books, so they’d also be fine for carrying library books or…