It’s a long time since I wrote a blog post. Most of the year, it’s been a strange year, 2020, as I think everyone will agree! This post is about a ball dress mock-up from 2018 ? Locket was invited to a ball and so a dress was needed. She found an image, below, online […]
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At the end of last year I got busy making some Christmas presents for the grandchildren. If truth be told I did start them for Xmas 2016 but ran out of time so they got other things instead! I started with a bag I made probably 20 years ago, a survivor from my children’s growing
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Yes, I do know it is March already but this is my first post for this year so Happy New Year dear readers! Life has been busy, but not too frantic, since the end of last year when I last wrote a blog post. I’ve had a bit of a break from sewing, despite there
A friend asked me to make her daughter’s ball gown for her end of year ball in September. They had looked around but nothing was what Miss V wanted. Miss V had some definite ideas as to design and so M decided to check with me. Miss V made me a rough sketch, with a
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This project harks back to 2015 when I was asked by a teacher at the dance studio if I would be able to make her dress for a wedding that she was Best Woman at. Yes, that’s right best woman to the groom ? I agreed . . . and then, as happens sometimes, one
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“Exactly what does that have to do with sewing?” I hear you ask. Well . . . if you sew you may well have guessed. For quite some time I had wanted a tailor’s ham – which you use for pressing. And I must admit the “sausage” is really a seam roll, again used for
First things first . . . it’s a new year! So To answer the question above, yes, I am still sewing and creating. However as far as sewing, crafting and creating went I had a quieter year last year. This was partly through choice, sort of like a sabbatical except not paid! As it turned
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18 April 2015 In April last year I had a call from my children’s dance teacher’s mother, Mrs L. One of Mrs L’s nearly lifelong friends had passed away recently. When clearing out her home her daughter’s had not known what to do with the stash of fabric. They knew that Mrs L used to
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I’m moving back in time to April 2015 – the beginning of the catch-up posts from last year! Every so often I get asked to make something for the church I attend. This time it was capes for the holiday programme in April. The brief was :- simple, no need for them to be flash.
Last year one of my cousin’s daughters had her second baby, a girl, Miss B. Plus a friend’s daughter had her first baby, also a girl, Miss K. Miss K’s I posted but was able to hand over the ones to Miss B and Master L when we saw them in March this year. I
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