Category archives: Dressmaking

  • Some truly 'Ultimate' Pyjamas

  • Hello out there! It's been a while. If you follow me on Instagram, you may already know the reason for my radio silence on the blog... I had a baby! Born at the end of February, I had a gorgeous baby boy weighing a hefty 9lb 9oz (go me!). So I have been busy adjusting to motherhood and tortur [...]
  • A Coco Fit for a Baby Bump!

  • Being a Tilly and the Buttons super fan, I even surprised myself for taking this long to try a Coco dress! I might be heavily pregnant, but thought I'd make one now just for fun, to see if it would work. I just decided to just try making a larger size than I normally would, with no fancy mate [...]
  • A swishy, summery Martha dress

  • So I have been one busy sewing bee, working flat out on this, my latest make, in time to wear to a very exciting sewing event this weekend. The Sewing Weekender, organised by The English Girl at Home and The Foldline, is taking place in Cambridge (lucky for me!) and I so wanted to have a new dre [...]
  • An Indoor Jungle Shirt Dress

  • Hello lovelies. So a little bit of a delay with this, my latest make (soz!). And before I get started, I just want to jump straight in and declare my love for this dress! It was somewhat rushed through the sewing room - out of a mixture of leaving it last-minute, and sheer excitement. Excitem [...]
  • Introducing my shiny new Sewing Room

  • Since moving into our new place just before Christmas, I have been busy beavering away to get our spare room set up as my sewing room. I know, very lucky to have my own room for sewing and craftiness... I'm over the flipping moon with it! A lot of inspiration was found via Pinterest for a lot [...]