Back in December, one late summer afternoon just before Christmas, I received a distress call from a friend of mine. Our girls had decided to give each other a hair cut. With craft scissors. I present you with Exhibits A…
Here finally are the details on Georgia’s dress in Osaka Sand Bloom. The pattern used was McCalls 5094 which she altered quite a bit. Here are the alterations: Georgia cut out the size 10 in View E, but eliminated the…
My youngest daughter and friends were just as keen to attend the school holiday sewing classes with Bernadette Doherty after seeing what the older girls had made during their sewing lesson. I wondered how these three (around 10 and 11)…
If you’re wanting to take advantage of the sale on Vogue and McCalls patterns, you’ve got till this Sunday 17th! All Vogue patterns are $12 and All McCalls patterns are 1/2 price
Here’s my daughter Gabby and a couple of friends spending a few hours during the school holidays with Bernadette Doherty. Bernadette was kind enough to run a three and a half hour class for the girls – just enough time…
Finally, we have our very first pattern review on one of the dress styles from the Lutterloh pattern classes we held at our stores last month. Catherine has made up this classic stylish shift dress (Lutt. patt #03) in our…
I have more exciting baby news. Today at 12.01pm Emma gave birth to a beautiful baby boy!!! Zac weighed 8lb1oz (3.65kg) and measured 50cm long. As I don’t yet have baby photos to share, I thought I’d post about another…
Meet Jessica. Does she look slightly familiar? She should – she’s the spitting image of her mum Georgia. This post had to follow the last pattern review of this peasant dress also made from McCalls 5050. Georgia whipped up this…
To go with the heatwave we just experienced in Sydney this weekend, a post about making an easy sundress is in order. Here is Georgia’s peasant style dress she made up this summer to go with the fantastic ballet flats…
Need to make a very simple camisole top like Jackie’s? Doesn’t this version look effective made up in Tessuti’s metallic finish,slinky Viscose/Elastane knit aptly named ‘Mercury’? The pattern used is McCalls 5398 – this pattern has been discontinued on the…
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