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The Sewing Blog Post for all the Sewing Blog Posts!Sewing Blogs, are they even still a thing?Over on Sewing Instagram, Alice Irvine (@its.alice.irvine) recently created a reel which questioned, in her usual comedy content style if being a blogger was still relevant...
It's safe to say that when it comes to making your own clothes and building a handmade wardrobe there are a heap of options out there when it comes to patterns and what to make. My sewing journey started back in 2020 when there were already plenty of Indie sewing...
When it comes to sewing sustainably, the choice of your fabric can make a big difference. But it is a minefield.. One of the reasons I started to sew was because of the lack of sustainable clothing choices I found on the highstreet. It’s crazy how many retail ranges...
I am a gadget junkie through and through so when I first heard about projector sewing I was instantly eager to learn more. The thought of having paperless sewing, not having to cut out/trace out the patterns and being able to have a pdf pattern ready to sew the...
I lost my Sewjo!It totally completely vanished. It felt really odd, but I had absolutely no desire to sew, cut fabric, choose patterns etc. Since I finished up my first dress in about June 2020, my sewing habit has been fairly relentless. My obsession with sewing in...
Fast fashion and it's impact on our planet has grown at a phenomenal rate in recent years...The need for fashion based businesses to churn out cheap, fashionable product 'fast' has been fuelled by us consumers, eagerly waiting for new releases to hit the shelves and...
I recently heard a stat via Patrick Grant on the Great British Sewing Bee that home sewers waste 30% of their fabric. That astounded me. I understood that as a general rule of thumb RTW clothing production wastes around 15%, and so how can home sewers waste so much...
You know, making jeans is not so scary..Imagine having the perfect pair of jeans. Perfect fit, perfect shape, perfect denim.. all of those things because they were made just for you! Since the sewing bug really took hold of me, I have been lusting after all the...
Jeans. Good fitting jeans... the holy grail right? I have always been a jeans a tee kind of a girl. Growing up I never wore dresses and even as a younger adult you would always find me in my default denim favourites. Fast forward to age 34, baby number 1 came along....
Today marks my 1 year sew-iversary...I started out 2020 with a New Year’s resolution to teach myself to sew a dress. No specific dress, just a dress good enough to wear that didn’t look ‘home made’ At this point in time, Covid-19 was ‘just coronavirus’ which was in...