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For those of you who have read my blog before, you will know that I am not very good at following instructions. Just like when I cook, I sew with thoughts of, what if I just added this here, or changed this there... I recently made the Carlyle Tshirt, which is one of...
I think I've said it before that I am not very good at following instructions. I often get started well, but quickly my own ideas pop into my mind and I am thinking of different ways to finish up what I have started. So, just as my cooking rarely follows the recipe,...
When Taree, the brains behind Marsha Style, said that she had another dress pattern in the making I instantly volunteered myself to join the testing group. Not only did the dress itself look fab, but I have really come to love the laid back style of the Marsha Style...
I started out this year with the Papercut Nova Coat in my grid of 9. I had a plan for a new coat and I had thought this would be the one. I don't know what it was that gave me second thoughts, but I started to look around. My next plan settled me on the Shoalhaven...
When I first decided I was going to learn how to sew a dress, this was the pattern I bought. I remember the day I decided to get cracking on my new year’s goal. I opened up the packet, lay the tissue paper out on my office floor and stood there puzzled and...
Ok, so I know this is another post about making jeans but this will be the last for a while. I enjoyed sewing the Muna and Broad Noice jeans and so wanted to write up a pattern review. I'll be honest I was a little disappointed when the pattern launched that it was a...
The Megan Nielsen Sudley Curve dress was one of the first I sewed. Hot off the heels of my success sewing her Eucalypt pattern I felt up for a dress and ready to learn. It was a bit of a disaster if I am honest and it never saw the light of day on me. I enjoyed sewing...
I love the whole idea of Muna and Broad. Before I even get into the pattern itself it's worth just talking about Muna and Broad, run by two great down to earth sewers, Leilai and Jess. The Muna and Broad patterns are beautifully drafted in an incredibly wide size...