I’m in! I pledge to wear an item of me-made clothing everyday of May 2014. I hope I can keep this up! At least it’ll give me a chance to air the me-made things I don’t have time to blog about. So here goes. Day One. This is hot off the pressing cloth. I finished […]
The Shocking Truth About The Fashion Industry #handmadeinsideout
Today is Fashion Revolution Day! One year ago today, 1133 people were killed and over 2500 were injured when the Rana Plaza factory complex collapsed in Dhaka, Bangladesh. Social and environmental catastrophes in our fashion supply chains continue. Fashion Revolution Day says enough is enough. Be curious. Find out who made your clothes — from […]
How to Spend Less Money on Food and Have More to Spend on Fabric!
Grow your own food! Turn your garden into a mini organic plantation like we are! We live on a tight budget; we like to eat organic and I have an expensive sewing hobby. With such discerning tastes and an unwillingness to compromise on quality, we’ve found creative ways to economise! One way has been to make […]
How vomit and spilt tea got me into the world’s leading textile printing design studio (and how you can DIY your own designer prints)!
First the back story that led to this serendipitous turn of events. It was the end of last summer and we were heading to Munich Fabric Start, an international fashion fabric-trade fair in Munich, Germany. We were combining our fair visit with the start of our family holiday because we planned to head south anyway and […]
Perfect Pattern Parcel #2 – A Little Girl’s Capsule Wardrobe and Welcome to my new site!
Hi folks, it’s Perfect Pattern Parcel (http://www.patternparcel.com) time again and this time the little one’s in our life are getting in on the wardrobe-building action! But before we get to my pattern reviews, I’d like to welcome you to my new site! It’s really exciting to finally have my own domain and I’m looking forward to […]
#SewingCoco Party – Coco meets Miette!
I’m celebrating Tilly‘s Coco Party today with a stripy Breton-inspired Coco top paired with my midi and maxi Miette skirts. Until yesterday evening, I hadn’t done any sewing this week, so Coco was the perfect quick basic pattern to get me back into the swing of things. I sewed the whole thing up apart from […]
Perfect Pattern Parcel #1 and Dixie DIY Summer Concert Tee
Carnival must have worked its winter-banishing magic because cold weather seems far behind us now and the sunny spell has me itching to get cracking on my 2014 summer wardrobe. As luck would have it, just as I’d begun excitedly daydreaming about patterns and fabrics, lovelies Jill (Made with Moxie) and Rachael (Imagine Gnats) approached me to […]
Fancy Dress Costumes – Part Two – ‘Yes little Cinderella, you shall go to the ball!’
Fairy/princess type bits and pieces for my children! This is the second installment of my Carnival makes for my children although this costume isn’t so much of an outfit, more a collection of accessories that can be worn together or played with separately. The main piece is this tulle skirt. I used the tutu pattern […]
Fancy Dress Costumes – Part One
I wanted to share a couple of costumes with you that I made for my children to wear for Carnival season. Firstly because I’m happy with how they turned out, but mainly because they were just so easy to make! It was my first time to make anything like this but the good news is, […]
‘Helau, Alaaf!!’, It’s Carnival!!
If Project Sewn or the new season of The Great British Sewing Bee haven’t whet your sewing appetite yet, then I offer you something a little different to get your creative juices flowing! Check out all this hand-made goodness! Mayhem has descended on the little southern German town where I live! Carnival street parade You […]