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 [...]
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 [...]
Oh! Good grief….. things have been crazily busy around here these last couple of weeks…. there are so many new fabric lines coming out and some of them are to die for I’m really drooling looking forward to receiving them! I’ve spent a great deal of time looking through thousands, hundreds lots of fabric swatches [...]
The editor of this magazine, Rhoda Parry has a new blog It’s really worth dropping by and visiting. The content is similar to the magazine, with hearty, warming recipes for this time of the year. Mentions and links to designers such as ‘Clothkits’ and Emma Bridgewater, blogs to visit, gorgeous photographs and it’s still a [...]
This hasn’t been the best week ever, on Monday my iron decided to go up in smoke, literally. I always use an iron when I’m sewing. I work in an L-shaped space and I could hear a strange fizzing/popping noise (I wouldn’t have heard it at all if I’d had the radio or iTunes playing). [...]
This little beech tree in the corner of the garden is doing it’s best with autumn colour now… The squashes have been harvested…. I’m so proud of those butternuts …. The leaves are definately falling… and burying the garden… and the chickens and anything else that stands still for long. Something else which is burying [...]
