Well that wasn’t too bad! I’d been dreading trying to gather the skirt for this dress…
Emergency Evening Dress – day 3
Now it’s time to start making the dress. I trimmed the lining for the drapes slightly to make…
Emergency evening dress – day 2
After yesterday’s fights with my lining fabric, I sewed five panels of lining together & cut the second…
Emergency Evening Dress day 1
Fabric buying day. There is a Fabricland in Bristol, but I’ve never noticed any particularly inspiring evening fabrics…
Eek… Emergency evening dress needed!
Monday evening my husband tells me that we’re going to a summer ball next Friday (11 July) –…
Adjusting Dora the dummy
Back at Christmas my very generous husband bought me a dressmaker’s dummy since I’ve taken up sewing again….
Maybe I should just rename this the Twice a Year blog…..
What can I say… life, work, dissertation (I passed!!), house move (we’re now in Bristol)… but there has…
The Airshow dress
More catching up. This was made back in July and has been worn several times but I’ve only…
Totally free top!
It must be my Scottish blood, but I love the idea of a totally free top! The pattern…
Signing up to Bloglovin
Follow my blog with Bloglovin Just adding my blog to Bloglovin since Google Reader is dying at the…