Category archives: Dresses
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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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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 [...]