If you follow my pattern making adventures you will know that I am a binding girl, I sew knit binding all the time and I love the finish, but we all have something that is not our favorite thing to do (mine is gathering). So what do you do if you hate knit binding with…
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.
For anyone who has been reading for a while, it will be no surprise that I am in love with the concept of Zero Waste fashion design. Someone who is big in this space is Zero Waste Daniel This little clip gives you a bit f a run down on what Zero Waste Daniel is about.…
So, it has been a while, but I am adding to my Youtube channel again today, continuing on my series of videos demonstrating some basic knit sewing techniques that I use in my patterns. I will be posting more tutorial videos as well as demo videos on how to sew my patterns on there, so subscribe to my channel…
I sew A. LOT. and although I would like to say it was, by no stretch of the imagination is everything I make up-cycled, zero waste or otherwise sustainable or eco-conscious. There are some occasions though, where it just makes sense to take the eco option. Picture this: You are shopping for sweater knits. You…
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…
Hi everyone, welcome to the blog, today I have a tutorial for how to make your girls some knickers, along with a Pattern-for-pennies sewing pattern for you. Knickers are a relatively inexpensive item to buy, so you might be thinking why would you bother?? Well extreme cuteness for a start: But as well as that,…
So, I have been working on another pattern for you guys, and was hoping to get that up this week, but my smallest little lady is at home with the flu, so it was not to be. I will get that up for you next week, but in the mean time… I have been putting…
A couple of weeks ago my daughter (4 yo) decided that wearing a skirt and t-shirt to daycare was unfashionable and embarrassing, and each morning sobbed about getting dressed into this sun safe but ’embarrassing’ combination. Being the dutiful (read tired of arguing about it) mother that I am, I whipped up this little sun…
I have had an absolute ball in the studio this week and couldn’t be happier with how this little project turned out. So I thought I would post up a tutorial so you could make one of your own.
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