Stitching, Stitching, Stitching

… and I haven’t quite finished another project.  It’s very close (hemming and facing need hand-stitching), but I wanted to wait until it was done to share, so patience, my dears! In the meantime – I’ve found this rather exciting prospect: The Historical Costume Inspiration Festival!  Go and see the rules at The Story of [...]

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I Skated!

I finally had a chance to go out with my young man and try these bad boys out.  And I didn’t die! I count this as a success.

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Moar free patterns!

Remember those free patterns I told you about before?  Well, that wonderful Ralph Pink of Fashion Gorgeous has been at it again and has more free patterns for us stitchers on a budget. In addition to the patterns I blogged about before, there are now playsuits, coats and dresses as well as some menswear.  Go [...]

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Retro Butterick – Done!

Remember that Retro Butterick pattern B4790?  Well, it’s finally finished!! First off, apologies for the rubbish photos – I took some with my camera whose battery then died, so I took some with my phone, but when I went to upload them, the ones on my camera had not saved, so only rubbish phone pictures, [...]

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Quick Update

Apologies for the lack of a proper post – I am working hard to get a project finished and then I will be blogging about it, but it needs a few final touches…

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Newsflash

All I will say is: weeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!! WEEEEEE! Edit: I will be doing a more detailed post with more pictures when it arrives!

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Things to Make, Do and Love

Because I hate to be selfish and keep lovely things I find online to myself … Something to Make – A Yo-Yo Pincushion (or Suffolk Puff Pincushion to my fellow Brits) from Crafty Pod: I really enjoy making Suffolk puffs, so next time I get some scraps of fun fabric, I’ll be making one of [...]

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Tools of the Trade – The Writing Box

I was going to contain my excitement and not say anything on this blog about this particular thing until I had it in my possession.  But I’m clearly not very good at that, because here I am about to gush about the wond’rousness of the very apt MA graduation gift from my Lovely Mum … [...]

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Skates

In an effort to do some exercise (gasp!), I’ve just treated myself to these: So, watch out streets of Nottingham, I now come with wheels!  (And probably not very good balance or speed control!) But did you know that the first pair of rollerskates was patented in 1760?  They weren’t very popular, apparently, though I [...]

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One Sentence Summary – Contest Alert!

A quick post to make sure you writerly types out there know about Rachelle Gardner’s very useful and informative post on how to write a One Sentence Summary of your novel.  What’s more, it’s a competition, so what are you waiting for?  Get over there, read and apply her lessons and you could win a year’s [...]

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