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…
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