(I should have pulled it down at the front a bit, there are red buttons on the shoulders) I took to wearing a cotton frock over my swimsuit ...

Today I tried the one-hour dress as seen on LSASPACEY ' s blog - I probably wouldn't have found it otherwise, and hers looks so love...

It was the Fifties Fair today at Rose Seidler house, hurrah! (I've been playing with the hipstamatic app on my new iPhone, which explai...

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...