Hello makers, how is April treating you all? After a week of 20 degrees warm spring weather, we are now being peppered with hail, gales and snow at every turn. Ah, the life of an April dweller. Spare a thought for my poor blossoming apple […]
Category: Sewing
Bright Sanders Button-up Shirt
Hi all! Well, it’s been a difficult start of the year has it not? Between the storming of the Capitol by fascists and the government in my own country (rightly) falling as the culmination of years long scandal in the tax department- all the while […]
2020: Sewing, Balcony Garden and Outside Explorations
December greetings friends! I hope those of you who celebrate Christmas had a warm, meaningful, merry and safe holiday celebration and for the rest of you I hope you’ve had a few restful loving days. Ordinarily I would have taken the train and travelled south […]
Negroni Flannel Shirt
Allow me to present you: the first garment I’ve ever sewn for anyone else! Locally, it’s also known as “the project that shouldn’t have taken me such a long ass time to make but did anyway”! Seriously, advancing from cutting out to stitched-up, finished wearable […]
Plaid-er on the Inside: Wiksten Jacket
The Wiksten jacket has been a real show stopper of the online sewing community since it was published. You’d be hard pressed to not come across it if you’ve browsed the sewing instagram hashtags for any length of time. This year, I made one too! […]
Ogden Tier Dress Hack
Allow me to parade for you in this high level of swooshy-ness with a twirl enticing dress! I made this Ogden hack early in the summer. I briefly aimed to post about it in August, as True Bias declared it Ogden month so I thought […]
Another Use for Double Gauze
I want to show you all the Bo Top I made a bit ago! This is my first foray into woven tops and it was one of the things I made during my Covid-19 lockdown sewing burst. I’ve been meaning to make a woven top […]
Dinosaurus Drex
Hey all, got a fun make to show you today. It’s denim, it has mega-deep pockets, and it’s got a dangerous bite – Intrigued? Read on. The pattern is Marilla Walker’s Isca dress. A pattern I was smitten with instantly when it was released and […]
Flannel Hinterland
Hello readers. Coming at you with some warm sewn comfort this time. I know, I know, two finished makes on the blog in as many weeks…what is this, 2012? Well, not exactly but I thought since I’m spending more time at home now (as are […]
Sister Winter
Greetings from a storm battered Treehouse! Like much of Northern Europe we’ve been visited by rushing gales and battering winds. I took a few things from my balcony as a precaution but other than comforting spooked cats from the whistling sound of the winds and […]