I have had this wild linen print in my stash for a while - I was stalled on what to make from it. The print is so bold that I felt like I ha...

  Gertie Sews Glam Knits / Gretchen Hirsch NY: Harry Abrams, c2026. 192 p. The latest pattern book by Gretchen Hirsch features knits - not a...

Now & again I do a bit of writing - and my sewing habits colour that, too 😉 Earlier this year, I had a poem published in an anthology w...

This is another UFO I've been working on -- it's Kwik Sew 1444, from the 80s, which I cut out in September 2025, from an extremely s...

  Dopamine Dressmaking / Brogan Allard London: Quadrille, c2024. 191 p. This is another book written by a former contestant on the Great Bri...

  It's already July! Time to make plans for the second half of the year... I was lucky in June and got a lot of my hoped for sewing done...

Sometimes my local Garment Guild has meetings that are more like outings! To close this season we had a tour of a fashion exhibit newly inst...