Bringing you some double delight because today we’re releasing TWO new patterns! Meet the Arkie Shirt and Bailee Shorts. We love them paired together but there’s no favouritism here because we love them equally as separates too. First up, let…
Introducing our third and final pattern release for 2022 – the Harlow Shirt! Shirts are definitely having a moment and this one combines all the design and practicality we look for (and love) in one. We’ve adopted some favourite features…
At the risk of being repetitive, but also with no apologies for being repetitive, here’s another outfit brought to you almost entirely by my FAVOURITE Japanese pattern book – Asuka Hamada’s Big Clothes & Small Clothes. Let me start with…
Here’s my latest make and another pattern from Asuka Hamada’s really and truly excellent book – Big Clothes and Small Clothes (see my last post for where to buy). This book is my absolute 5 star go-to favourite right now, even to…
In November last year, Silva sewed a shirt sample to coincide with the release of a limited range of fabrics from Ikuntji Artists that we were carrying at the time. When we instagrammed, we also put some feelers out to gauge…
Our latest pattern – the Ines Shirt – features a neat little ‘floating’ patch pocket that is not your average patch pocket. To help guide you through the sewing process, we’ve put together this step-by-step tutorial which shows – in…
Not sure about you, but a large chunk of my 2020 has been spent online. I don’t shop much anymore and I haven’t shopped much this year, but I have browsed much. VERY much. Perhaps even VERY TOO MUCH. I’m…
In my last shirt post I mentioned that I’d already chosen my next shirt project and so here it is – the Olya Shirt from Paper Theory Patterns. I’d spied a few beautiful versions of this pattern on insta but this perfect, crisp…
Is it even a birthday shirt if it isn’t gifted a little bit late? Not including the ten years of promises to make him one, this arrived just four days after his actual birthday so I’ll call that a gift win….
I have always loved shirts. Loved shirts and worn shirts. Loved shirts and worn shirts and bought shirts. So I never really needed another one and, truth be told, there was a little fear factor involved too. All those buttonholes….
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