Fabric and Pattern Haul – Part 2

So, for today, here’s the rest of that haul!  Two more patterns and some more fabric. So, that fabric – this was a purchase of love: Again, I couldn’t get the colour quite right in the photo, but it’s a soft mauve-grey – this tiny picture shows the colours a bit better: Those flowers – [...]

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Free Pattern Alert!! And meet Dolly!

Woot-woot-woot!  Free patterns!  All month!  I know!  The very kind Kathleen of Grosgrain is hosting a whole month of free patterns with tutorials from their creators – that’s a new pattern each day.  It’s like it’s your birthday every day!  Here are the patterns so far – I can’t wait for the rest. As for [...]

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Fabric and Pattern Haul – Part 1

Well, this might not quite qualify as a haul, as these things were bought a bit at a time over the past week or two, but I thought I’d share them with you all together. I’ve had my beady little eye on Ebay lately, specifically on bargain vintage patterns.  I have a couple of simple [...]

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More Flowers

Last week when I blogged about summer and the gorgeous roses my mum gave me, I recalled another bunch of flowers she bought me that I took photos of and forgot to post about on here. Just check out those chrysanthemums -  they’re like giant pom poms!!!!!!! I got them just before Christmas, so huzzah [...]

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Stays, Stitches and Spectacles

What a weekend! Friday – I got home from work to this yumminess: (They’re a bit creased as I’ve hand-washed them, but haven’t ironed yet.) The photos really don’t do these fabrics justice.  I’ll confess, I’ve been too busy to do a burn test, but from the feel of the fraying threads on the cut [...]

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Colourful

For the sake of simplicity, I’ve pretty much decided to make one of the polonaise style jackets first, with a pierrot probably after that.  And slotted in somewhere will be the hooded Snowshill jacket – it started raining when I was walking to work the other day and the first thing I thought was: I [...]

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Oops

So, it turns out I should be supervised when on eBay in my lunch break.  I kinda accidentally bought two pieces of gorgeous silk taffeta for a bit of a bargain price.  One’s navy (ear-marked for my eventual pierrot) and the other is called ‘electric blue’ but doesn’t look anything like what I class as [...]

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For the Love of Damask

Squeeee!  Please excuse my excited and brief post, but I just won this gorgeous fabric on eBay: Pink cotton damask, 2.6m by 1.25m. OK, I know it’s not 18th century, but I thought it looked rather 17th Century and I love it.  Oh, and did I mention I got it for £1.04? Yaaaaaaaay!  I want [...]

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Sewing Machine Goodness

I have taken those promised photos of my lovely new sewing machine: Snug in its little case. Awake and raring to go! It even has all the original feet that came with it and the instruction manual, which revealed a cute coincidence … In the back is the original guarantee/warranty receipt with a space for [...]

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Magical Mystery Tour… of Nottingham

I’d like to say a big thank you to the lovely Rosel for taking me on a magical mystery tour of the sewing and vintage shops of  Nottingham today. We went to Husqvarna Studio , which looks like a very useful place for habadashery bits’n’pieces and even sewing classes: The only down side about the [...]

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