sewing

Make Do and Mend: Thrify Teddy with Scraps of Material

Make Do and Mend: Thrify Teddy with Scraps of Material

My son had a sick-day off school today and had the fabulous idea of making his own teddy bear. He carefully drew one out on a piece of paper and went  through my bag of scraps of material to decide which body parts should be made from which bits of material… 

Starting to sew, and whether to use vintage sewing patterns and fabric

Starting to sew, and whether to use vintage sewing patterns and fabric

I  got totally inspired by watching The Great British Sewing Bee over the last few weeks – the great news is that they’ve just announced a new 6 part series of it for next year! Anyway, it inspired me to dig out my sewing machine and dust it off. I bought a sewing machine in(…)