The “British Summer” dress
Fabric: cotton Pattern: Licorice dress from the Colette Sewing Handbook Year: contemporary Notions: 22” invisible dress zip, 3 buttons Time to complete: about 6 [...]
Charlotte Tilley sewed a dress in 1988 on her mother's machine. Then nothing for over 20 years. She came out of hibernation to sew along with sewweekly for the last year. She has learnt alot, but has a long long way to go.....
Fabric: cotton Pattern: Licorice dress from the Colette Sewing Handbook Year: contemporary Notions: 22” invisible dress zip, 3 buttons Time to complete: about 6 [...]
The Facts Fabric: blue wool crepe aptly named Jubilee from www.croftmill.co.uk, £10 per metre, I used about 1.5m Pattern: Colette Truffle, minus flounce Year: [...]
Fabric: Spun rayon from www.croftmill.co.uk, £3.50 a metre Pattern: Colette Truffle, minus the flounce Year: Contemporary Notions: 22” invisible zip Time to complete: about [...]
The Facts Fabric: Some kind of crepe Pattern: Truffle from Colette Sewing Handbook by Colette Patterns Year: Contemporary Notions: lining, invisible dress zip Time [...]
Fabric: Navy blue needlecord from www.croftmill.co.uk and quilting cotton from the lining that I bought from Sarah at Rhinestones and Telephones when she was destashing last [...]
The Facts: Fabric: cotton bought from www.croftmill.co.uk Pattern: Free download from V and A museum in London based on a dress in their collection, [...]
It’s been ages since I’ve hosted a giveaway on The Sew Weekly! Well, readers, I have a treat for you: as part of the [...]
Next week’s theme calls for us to integrate real Fashion (with a capital “F”) by being inspired by runway trends. While the following guide [...]
I started writing in second person narrative because it felt most comfortable to me. I hope it doesn’t come across as domineering, but rather [...]
Here’s a great piece from Vogue about Queen Elizabeth II’s lifetime of wardrobe choices. If you’re still trying to figure out what to make [...]
Tempest over at Fanbloomingtastic wrote a neat little piece on the ’10 Things Learned’ whilst participating in the Sew Weekly Challenges. Seeing as that reflection is key to [...]
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