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 [...]
Sorry to be showing such an ugly photograph….. this magnetic snap has worn away the bag lining. Now I remember why I always apply magnetic snaps this way …. I’ve had this bag for ages. I like this bag, I use this bag everyday and now it’s …. defunct….nothing I can do with it apart [...]
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 [...]
I haven’t really mentioned LOVE yet have I … no don’t run away this isn’t going to be one of those cringeworthy conversations you might have with your teenage children. Although I am a little trepidatious (I think I made that word up) about what spam is going to hit my blog now! Love is [...]
Beware!! This post is picture heavy. At the risk of turning my poor dear blog into a bit of a catalogue I felt honour bound to share these with you. But there is something nice at the end. My room of fabric has gained a few boxes … large boxes. O.K that’s not very interesting [...]
There have been a lot of new fabrics arriving recently but I think this collection is completely stunning and quite beautiful. These fabrics are all designed by Laura Gunn for Michael Miller and are part of her Poppy collection. I love the ‘painterly’ style … I love the colours … burnt spice orange against aqua [...]
It’s pretty manic around here… I’m trying to get photographs of the fabrics set against a ruler to give an idea of scale. It’s one of those jobs that you almost wish you’d never started but will be nice when it’s done …and.. If the sun comes out ….I’ll have to stop…. but I suspect [...]
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 [...]
There have been oddles of beautiful pictures added to the Flickr group…. really, absolutely oddles. So, I thought that I’d show you some of the the wonderful bags that have been added and follow this later by a ‘Flickr post’ devoted to the clothes that you have been skillfully designing and sewing. Amazingly, it doesn’t [...]
