This weekend I made my fifties fair frock. It's next weekend, so I decided to go for a pattern I'd made before - I think this might ...

It will take me a bit longer to know for sure, but I think having a dedicated sewing room has slowed my sewing down. I used to be motivat...

In last year's makeover post I mentioned wanting to get hold of a Queen Anne style bedroom suite. I finally did a few weeks ago - two b...

It's been a long time between posts; I've been sewing, just not fast enough to blog about it. I finished the final iteration of Heid...

I got some blood red stretch bengaline on Saturday. I was umming and ahhing but then decided to buy 5m of the stuff. I do love a bit of beng...

Here's the other frock I was making while Heidi-ing. It's made of the Joel Dewberry Deer Valley fabric featured in an earlier post....

Moggy and I were making Heidis at the same time on the weekend, and had a virtual sew-along over the innernets. Fun! We used similar prin...

I finally got back into sewing this weekend - it felt fab. Why did it take me so long to get onto the Heidi bandwagon? She's a good qui...

I was going to make another Heidi today, but as we head into winter next week, I fancied making something I can wear in the next two or th...

I have some vintage fabric and I couldn't decide on a pattern for it. I think it's rayon, it's got that crispy acetate hand, an...

Thank you interweb friends, for your sympathy and your suggestions on how to fix this frock. I bit the bullet and took Lsaspacey's advic...

Yesterday's frock again. I took out the zip, and clawed back about a centimetre of ease by sewing it back in on a smaller seam allowance...