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One hundred (and more) ukulele bags
The very last uke bag has left my sewing machine! I have made well over a hundred quilted ukulele gig bags and appliquéd ukulele tote bags since sewing the very first gig bag for my Flea. I've sold...
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Scarlett et Marguerite Baba Yaga dress
Introducing my first Scarlett et Marguerite Baba Yaga dress! Scarlett et Marguerite is a boutique and fabric store based in Nancy, France, which also designs and sells its own patterns for easy-to-sew...
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December Ends
With the year drawing to a close we took a late afternoon walk on Worthing beach. The landscape to the east was coloured in soft pastel shades of blue with sandy brown footnotes. The prospect to the...
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Lisette Portfolio Dress: Simplicity 2245 - in floral corduroy
I've written before about my yearning for a copy of Simplicity's out-of-print Lisette Portfolio dress sewing pattern and tweeted about this again recently having seem a shockingly priced one on eBay....
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Under The Pier
A walk at low tide on a bright, cold January day gave excellent views of the tremendous structure under Worthing Pier. Beneath the Pier stands strong legs of steel, rusted in shades of gold and webbed...
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The Green Surge Baba Yaga Dress
In a week when membership of the UK's Green Party overtook that of the Lib Dems and UKIP in what Twitter called #GreenSurge, I was pleased to wear a new greenBaba Yaga dress (hot off my sewing...
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Just Desserts Dress: Lisette Portfolio - Simplicity 2245
Trifling with the idea of making another Portfolio dress, I spied Fabric Land's pudding patterned Cake Stand heavy cotton (from their own-brand Hill-Berg range) at £3.99 a metre – it would've been...
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Jurassic Fleece: McCall's M6785 Girls' Dress
My ten year old's interest in all things Jurassic happily shows no sign of abating, so when I found some polar fleece fabric printed with dinosaur bones in Brighton's Fabric Land, I knew what I had to...
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Year of The Goat lavender bags in the Ivy Arch shop
To mark the imminent start of the Year of the Goat I have restocked my Etsy shop with some new Chinese zodiac goat lavender bags. They're made from Mini ModernsStevie printed cotton which was inspired...
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Save Worthing Skyline!
Property developer Roffey Homes intend to build a 21 storey high-rise apartment block close to the promenade on Worthing beach. Yesterday I joined the Save our Seafront protest to voice my opposition...
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Embroidered by Imagination: A Gudrun Sjödén Valentine
Embellished with embroidered and printed roses, Gudrun Sjödén's Spring 2015 collection is influenced by the colourfulness and craftsmanship of the Far East.My favourite piece from Sjödén's Spring...
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Wukulele Love
Wukulele jam traditionally takes a break in January, so today saw us meeting up for the first time in 2015. With every seat in Worthing Rowing Club taken, latecomers were huddled into the bar area – it...
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Building a Living Willow Dome
The first few days of February's half term holiday were spent helping to build a living willow dome in Worthing's Beach House Park. This family-friendly project was part of BugCycle an initiative run...
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One Zentangle A Day – eventually
Worthing based holistic therapist and mindfulness tutor Joanne Turner introduced me to the practice of zen doodling some 18 months ago. The idea of a meditative practice that incorporates doodling and...
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Quilted Spring Coat: Burda 7072
Four weeks in the making, my first homemade quilted coat is finished in time for spring! I'd been meaning to get around to making a quilted coat ever since I fell in love with the process of quilting...
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Bloomsbury Wiksten Tova Dress
After the sewing saga that was my quilted spring coat, a fast fashion sewing fix was necessary. This Wiksten Tova took a few hours to make and seemed the ideal way to use some of the discounted Liberty...
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Liberty Lytton Tova Dress
It took longer for me to get round to blogging this second Bloomsbury Tova than it did to sew it, and it's already had several wears and a wash! The main dress material is a magenta and teal version of...
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Beach House Park Bug Hotel
Yesterday we helped build a bug hotel in Worthing's Beach House Park as part of the BugCycle project run by new community organisation Worthing Wildlife in partnership with established community arts...
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Brighton Souvenir Tova Dress
Though we didn't go away during the school Easter holidays, exciting day trips and action packed lovely long days have resulted in my accumulating something of a blogging backlog. Like the recent lost...
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Quilted Square Coat: Easy Cute Straight Stitch Sewing
Keen to continue on my quilted coat making odyssey, this is a quilted version of the Square Coat from Yoshiko Tsukiori's Japanese sewing book Easy Cute Straight Stitch Sewing. I made a green felt...
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