Estoy de vuelta!!! Colombia como te amo! For anyone who doesn’t know, I lived in Angola for the last 18 months or so, and before that I lived in rural Colombia. I straight up fell in love with Colombia – the hills, the coffee, the people, the accents, the snacks… it’s a wonderful country. Sadly… Continue reading Return to Colombia
Continuing my BHL obsession… an Elisalex mash up. For some reason I’ve been terrified of princess seams ever since I started sewing. I think it’s the fact that it’s a seam – ie, not a dart which you can adjust and move – and therefore seems very permanent. I decided to overcome this fear by… Continue reading Sigmalex love
I’m writing this on my last day in Angola… which feels very strange. I’ve lived in Angola for 14 months – the longest I’ve stayed in one country since 2010. I’ll be going back to Colombia and starting over again – again. It’s been a weird time – good and bad in equal measure –… Continue reading Return to wax print: Papercut Sigma dress
So I made this before the referendum… but I wore it for the first time today, to pick up my spirits. There’s been so much written on this, and no doubt there will be much more, so I won’t add a load to it. I do want to outline my personal feelings though, because I’m… Continue reading The WHY ARE WE LEAVING dress
It took me a while to get photos of this make because – wait for it – I got typhoid. Yeah, expat life is so glamorous, with the power cuts and the Victorian illnesses. The By Hand London Holly jumpsuit was on my sewing plan for 2016, and while this doesn’t fit the original brief, I’m… Continue reading Holly dress
Deer and Doe have kind of blown my mind. I ordered three of their patterns online and had to wait a million years to get them, since the company doesn’t do PDF patterns and there is no postal service where I live. So I got them, and immediately made two of them. EVERLASTING LOVE The… Continue reading Doubledecker: #DDlove
I’ve been on holiday. It was awesome. Admittedly I lost a lot of stuff but that is so standard for me I barely even notice nowadays. I went to Cape Town for a few days (amazing), then the backend of nowhere in the Yorkshire Dales with my family (brilliant) and a week of relaxing… Continue reading What I did on my holidays
T-shirt and jeans is my standard day-to-day outfit. Comfy and practical with a million potential variations, it just works. But since I’ve started sewing, I’ve come across a problem: while there are a million woven tee patterns out there, none of them is just quite right… Plus, this is where I really feel the limitations… Continue reading Quest for the perfect woven tshirt
I can’t work out if I am terrible at measuring myself, or super weirdly shaped, or the Guise pants have way more ease than they profess to have, or I just got confused. It’s probably the last one to be honest. I LOVE Papercut Patterns – although this is the only thing I’ve made by… Continue reading Papercut Patterns Guise Pants
It took me so long to get around to making this pattern, and I’m not sure why. I love Dolly Clackett, where Emery dresses pop up regularly in various forms, and the fit-and-flare shape is one of my favourites. I’ve even had the PDF sat on my desk, fully glued and cut out, just waiting… Continue reading Christine Haynes Emery dress aka The Allonby Dress
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