Contributor Creations
Diamond Jubilee
The Facts Fabric: Thrifted cotton knit dress, about £5, plus polyester chiffon, originally from Goldhawk Rd market for about £2/m Pattern: None Year: Contemporary Notions: [...]
Contributor Creations
Diamond Jubilee
The Facts Fabric: Green/cream yard-dyed suiting $10 Pattern: Simplicity 2154 Year: Contemporary 1960s reissue Notions: 7″ zip $1, fabric-covered buttons $2 Time to complete: [...]
The Facts Fabric: about 1 metre of wool (or acrylic?) blend woven stuff from my stash – I’m going with ‘free’ as it was [...]
Contributor Creations
Viva Las Vegas
The Facts Fabric: Clip-dot chiffon $5, sequin fabric $15, black lining remnants $3 Pattern: Self-drafted skirt and Stretch & Sew 300 Year: Now obviously, [...]
I’m slowly catching up on all the challenges I missed blogging about between March and May, and here is my VIP fabric challenge, made [...]
The Facts Fabric: 1 and a bit metres of lightweight Italian printed cotton from Goldhawk Rd Notions: Thread buttons and interfacing from stash. Pattern: 50p [...]
The Facts Fabric: Blue/white dot satiny something $7, grey suiting remnant $3 – both from Jo-Anns Pattern: Simplicity 3688 Year: Contemporary reissue of a [...]
When the 1940s pattern challenge came up I knew just what I wanted to make. Not for me one of the endless (but very [...]
The Facts: Pattern: Blouse-Du Barry Perfect Pattern 5245 view 1 Shorts-McCall’s 5633 Year: 1941 and 2011 Fabric: 1 1/2 yds green and yellow flowy [...]
Where to begin? You see this story has several middles, no real beginning, and is at the moment without an ending. I guess I [...]
Next week’s theme has us sewing with the brightest of colors. Here’s a little inspiration to get you pumped for a little yellow action. [...]
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Giveaways
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 [...]
Daily Bits
Ten Things
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 [...]
Daily Bits
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 [...]
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