Beautiful fabrics and beautiful patterns… Amy Butler now as quite a catalogue of beautiful sewing patterns suited to different levels of sewing skills. There are sewing patterns for bags, appropriate for all different needs. There are all kinds of gorgeous, versatile and extremely stylish sewing patterns for skirts, tunics, halter tops and sun tops and [...]
Fabrics aren’t the only things that Anna Maria Horner fills with saturated, effervescent colour. A box of her latest patterns for the shop all wrapped in intense lime green tissue paper and sealed with pink stickers. There’s the Evening Empire Dress sewing pattern with four different construction options. You can mix up your fabrics in [...]
Who doesn’t love pincushions? Essentially every little pincushion has a functional role to play in the sewing room. It valiantly holds onto those sharp finger pricking pins, pin heads, decorative or otherwise pointing upwards so that they are easy to grab hold of when you next need to hold your sewing in place. Somehow, though [...]
Note how I’ve skillfully avoided a ‘Sound of Music link….. it was very tempting…. I’ve been having a bit of an expansion in the patterns department and just look at what’s arrived. Gorgeous, wonderful and desirable patterns from ‘Favorite Things‘. Favorite Things are a Canadian Mother and daughter-in-law design team, Leslie and Kimberley Gladman. Maybe [...]
I’m sorry to do this when the weather seems to have forgotten that it’s summer and it was doing so well. All those weeks of uninterrupted sunshine whilst the children were at school and now that there’s the opportunity to enjoy the lack of school routine and go out on picnics and walks in the [...]
So how’re the Easter holidays going? I’ve just realised that the children have Monday off too because it’s a training day. I quite like those. We live on the border of three counties which tends to mean that if you nip over the border the ‘natives’ will have returned to their normal routine; so for [...]
I’ve been busy today adding some new fabric bundles to the shop and some beautiful new patterns. … some pretty flowers from Martha Negley.. (Link) …and …. some pretty soft greens and yellows from Amy Butler… (Link) Plus, some gorgeousness from the Amy Butler’s Daisy Chain collection. (Link) There are some new patterns; The Fat [...]
I hope that you all enjoyed your half-term. Once the ice and the snow finally disappeared we made the most of being able to get and about again. The trouble with snow is of course, that it melts…. and this happens… …Danger! Mud eating wellies!! In the meantime though some new fabics have arrived in [...]
I’ve decided to extend the fabric sale for now and I’ve added other Rowan and Freespirit fabrics, which includes designers such as; Amy Butler, Kaffe Fassett, Valori Wells, Martha Negley, Joel Dewberry and others. I’ve also been busy adding some new patterns to the shop . .. there are these and these…. These patterns are [...]
