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Minerva Make: April Rhodes Date Night Dress & Simple Slip
When I saw this dress released, courtesy of MisForMake I was captivated. I can’t put my finger on the precise reason why, but I kept returning to it, just mulling it over in my mind. I am not a...
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Minerva Make: The “What would Dolly Clackett wear” dress
Even though I knew I would miss the deadline for #sewdollyclackett with my May Minerva make, it still felt current enough to make another dress in honour of the Sew Dolly Clackett challenge, out of...
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Cheong Sam- Scruffy Badger style
I know over the past month I may not have seen to be as productive with my sewing output as usual. That is because I have had some secret projects – including this one. This project let me say has...
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My Cheong Sam jacket- enter the bolero of extreme happiness
Hello ! Happy weekend everyone. So I’m still talking about the “evening outfit” – the glam June Minerva make. So with a faux Cheong Sam to wear for a special evening, time to talk about the jacket...
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Minerva Meet Up: A weekend of delights
It was the Minerva Meet up this last weekend & whilst I was going through my photos of the day & evening I was trying to work out just what to say about it. What would you be interested in? As...
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Minerva Make: My Cheong Sam and jacket- now in 3D
There is nothing left to be said about my Cheong Sam that I haven’t already said here except what it was like to wear, but let’s start with one of the few jokes I can ever remember – something I always...
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My butterfly Lilou dress
Here is my July Minerva make – starting with the fabric- this pretty cream fabric with a plethora of butterflies flipping their way across it. I must admit that when I saw it on the website I did not...
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Minerva Make: Sewaholic Lonsdale in Gingham
Yes you heard me – a Sewaholic Lonsdale in gingham! That was my plan for my August Minerva make. And what’s even more of an achievement is that we’ve had a Lonsdale kind of summer (well in parts!) I...
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Minerva Make: Champagne Skirt by Capital Chic
Hey where’s the week gone? I know just where…amongst the nerves & preparations for the Great North Run (of which I am sure I will return to some kind of mention later in the month), plus sewing...
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Londinium and an orange cocoon cardigan
So I said in my last post that I feel like a cardigan experimenter, & here’s another! Well more of a cloak-igan. This is my October Minerva make & I gave it a test drive on a recent trip to...
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Hot Patterns – Plain & Simple Iconic Shirt Dress
Let me introduce the Plain & Simple iconic shirt dress by Hot Patterns using John Kaldor viscose jersey in navy. This is my November Minerva make. And your reward for reading on is a special...
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….and breathe…..
Hello lovelies! I need to wish you Happy Christmas before it’s too late! I hope you all have a most wonderful time doing what makes you happy. I am hosting this year and we are going to use our...
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My Anise jacket
So here it is, the most proud moment of my sewing history I think I can say. I am reporting back on my Anise jacket and I am stoked. It’s lined, it has welt pockets and bound buttonholes. It has the...
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Cheong Sam- Scruffy Badger style
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Anise jacket
Apologies in advance for repeating this post- but through all my laptop debacle & having to use the WordPress app on the iPad I have inadvertently deleted some of my recent posts. I am trying to...
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Adventures in pleather – the Madrid Tote
Hello! This month’s Minerva make falls into the accessories category- I’ve made a bag. A tote bag using the Madrid pattern from the Seamwork magazine (Colette Patterns online magazine which is...
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It’s Chino time! Simplicity 1696
Hello everyone! I feel I have struck Chino gold, but in order to explain why, I need to go back in time to a less positive place. Do you remember when I made *those Burda* trousers (Burda 7017)...
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My new teal woolly is the Jenna cardigan!
So you saw that I had a new, unblogged and much worn cardigan last month in Me made May (seen in the third week, here). Time to reveal the identity (unless you already worked it out for yourselves!)...
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The real Betty Dress by Sew Over It
In readiness for the sun making itself known to us, welcome Betty, made out of this lovely lawn – it’s a rich but gentle mid blue with bursts of orange flowers. It is so light as well- like a breath of...
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Shorts! New Look 6100
Gosh, it’s been a whole week since I have blogged! I know exactly where it’s gone – the final whirlwind of last minute DIY and paranoid cleaning before my house is on the market. I missed sewing,...
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