Author archives: Gingerthread Girl
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Autumn has arrived! And so have the warm comfy clothes thankfully :)
I have been excited to stitch up this sweater ever since I bought the fabric on my spending spree at The Handmade Fair on 19th September. It is a super soft quilt effect jersey from Fabric Godmother. I had already spied t [...]
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This was my very first Knitting and Stitching Show, so I was keen to find out what all the hype was about. Off I trundled on my own and had an absolute BLAST!
I arrived late morning on Saturday and straightaway knew that I wanted to get a place at Matt Chapple’s talk. By the time I had mana [...]
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Next on the agenda as far as events go for me, is my first time at The Knitting and Stitching Show. This year it takes place at Alexandra Palace from 7th to 11th October. Being relatively new to the world of sewing and dressmaking, I have never been to a Knitting and Stitching Show before – so [...]
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Howdy y'all. I recently whipped up this cute little skirt especially for wearing to The Handmade Fair a couple of weeks back. It's a really easy pattern by Megan Nielsen called Brumby skirt.
It was dead easy to sew - and quick too! Which was good because I left it really last minute to make [...]
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Phewey…. This post feels like it has been a long time coming. I have been very literally knee deep in packing for our big house move. Stress has been sky high, but happily settled into our temporary home now. So life is good!
While I had boxes stacking up around me, I made it my mission to [...]
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So amongst a muchness of mad packing at home for the dreaded house move, I haven't been able to get up to much craftiness. I know... very sad. But excitement coming my way in the form of tickets to The Handmade Fair!
I will be winging it down to The Green at Hampton Court Palace with one of [...]
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This post has been a long time coming... but here I am - FINALLY showing you all my most challenging piece yet! And I'm so proud of the result. I hope you like it too!
My brother and I had a little jaunt up at the woods with the dog to take these photos. We decided it would be a lovely spo [...]
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- Ollo loveliest everyones!
I've been away from the blog pretty much for the last month - mostly due to crazy house move activities and going on holiday. It was a much needed rest and relax in gorgeous sunshiny Marrakech. I took with me a couple of books + a shed load of magazines - one of which [...]
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Howdy! So I’ve been suffering badly with the dreaded lurgy lately – which has been a bummer, to say the least! It’s taken me so long to get on and actually finish this dress. I think I started it at the end of November… wow… just worked that out myself. It DID take me ages!
The pattern i [...]
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Evening lovelies!
Tonight I give you another very gorgeous By Hand London Flora dress. This is a dress which I made in super fast time to wear to a very special wedding in August last year. It was like real life Great British Sewing Bee!! I try to avoid making things in a rush to a deadlin [...]
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Back in August I attended the wedding of an old school friend of mine, at a gorgeous hotel in St Albans. I decided some time beforehand that I wanted to be good enough at dressmaking to be able to make my own dress to wear on the day of the wedding. I had only been sewing for a few months, so [...]
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- Hello! So here you have it - my very first post on Gingerthread Girl - I can hardly contain my excitement!!
I figured that the best place for me to start is with my very first ever handmade dress.
I started this over my first few dressmaking lessons during my evening course. The idea of [...]
