Sewing lessons in Lindfield, West Sussex
Visit the brand new Stitch Club blog! Many of you will know me for the adult sewing classes I run at my home sewing studio, and some of you follow my sporadic blog postings here at Needleswift. However, for even longer than I’ve been teaching adults, I’ve been running an after school children’s sewing club [...]
I consider myself to be pretty well immersed the the 'indie pattern' world. I sew more patterns from small pattern makers, than I do from the big names like Burda, Vogue and Simplicity. Yes, they're more expensive, but you really get what you pay for. That is, well planned patterns which have been properly tested, [...]
Sewing the ultimate pair of trousers is like the sewist's Holy Grail. We're searching for that perfect combination of fit and style, and hoping the next sewing pattern we try will be our new 'tnt' - 'tried'n'true'. Something we'll go back to again and again. When I sew trousers, the most important thing for me [...]
I was getting all geared up for Spring sewing until the Beast from the East and Storm Emma made my plans feel seasonally inappropriate! I had purchased this lovely cosy brushed cotton from Croft Mill a couple of weeks ago and it just seemed perfect for another Helmi Tunic Dress. As you can tell from [...]
This time last year I don't think I would even have considered wide-leg trousers, but as usual, my insta-sewing feed fills up with a style and suddenly it doesn't seem so crazy any more. I purchased the pattern for Papercut's Nagoya Pants just before Christmas, and in the lazy week between Christmas and New Year [...]
Yesterday I finished sewing my first Cleo dress. To give you an idea of how much I like it, know this: I haven't felt compelled to blog about any makes for seven months. I've definitely been sewing (my husband moaned recently that I've stolen all his hangers for my new makes and he's stacking shirt [...]
So, I'm still having a 'Seamwork' moment here, after my recent discovery that I can avoid pasting A4 patterns together by ordering whopping A0 prints from a copyshop. This time I've road-tested the Astoria top and Margo skirt. Both of these are patterns which, at first glance, I decided were not my style. The Astoria, [...]
Recently, I went to real life bricks-and-mortar fabric shop! This may sound odd, but I'm not a big fan of traipsing around shops, what with all the amazing fabric at my fingertips online. But I don't live a million miles from Brighton, so I managed to squeeze in a fun day out with some friends, [...]
Though the Tamarack Jacket I made a few weeks ago was deemed successful, I hadn't intended to make another one quite so soon. Seriously, who needs more that one quilted jacket in their wardrobe? But I had just purchased some burgundy sweat-shirting fabric, with the intention of yet another comfy winter dress, when this vision just appeared [...]
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