This hasn’t been the best week ever, on Monday my iron decided to go up in smoke, literally. I always use an iron when I’m sewing. I work in an L-shaped space and I could hear a strange fizzing/popping noise (I wouldn’t have heard it at all if I’d...

Look – I’ve dyed a colour wheel and bits of yarn to match. I had quite a lot of fun dyeing those bits of cloth…. no – I didn’t dye those tiny little fabric segments, the actual fabric pieces are much bigger (fat quarters actually ) I find it quite...

Here are some of the lovely things that are being added to the Gone to Earth – Sewing by You” Flickr group. Flickr is such a brilliant way of showing off what you make, whether it’s because you are selling your handcrafted designs and therefore need...

I really don’t know where this week has disappeared too. I’ve been putting together some photographs for an advert… A pretty fabric stack A glorious stack of pretty fabrics…. and mixing up fabrics always absorbs a frigtening amount of time. This...

I’ve been making up the pattern I’ve been working on and with a few adjustments here and there, it’s become a bag. The Drop-In bag It’s made out of Patty Young’s Mezzanine fabric (Gothic Wave), using the fabric pattern widthways across the bag band...