Summer Sewing Love [with new patterns]

We have 2 new patterns that have launched, and one of them is completely FREE for you guys!

How to add pockets to knit shorts [FREE POCKET PATTERN]

Now I can’t tell you for the life of me why I didn’t add pockets to the #206 Ladies Retro Gym Shorts pattern to start with. But I thought it presented a good opportunity to do a post about adding pockets to, not only this pattern, but to pretty much any knit shorts (or pants for that matter) pattern that you have.

Fast Fashion Death Match – the results are in!

Well I know that you have been waiting with baited breath, but finally, the results are in and it’s Made By Me for the win!! If you have no idea what I am talking about, check out the original post for all the details, but the general idea is this: A little over a month…

Fast Fashion Death Match – Get ready to throw down!

If you watched the recent ABC series War On Waste you were probably as surprised and appalled as I was to find out that in this country (Australia), we throw away 6000 KG of fashion and textile waste every 10 minutes. In the episode covering the issue, the waste was put down to our love of…