Today I finished my practice run of dress A from the Stylish Dress Book.  I made a size 12 and it fits beautifully at the neck, I love the ...

Hello there!  Lots of slow and steady sewing around here, a list a mile long of things to get finished, or even get started on for that matt...

The baby is sleeping. I'm enjoying sewing myself a top. I'm ignoring anything else that "needs" to be done.

  I am currently a little bit ridiculously obsessed with sewing clothes for myself.  This is probably a good thing because: 1. I am breast...

  We recently found out that our house has a name in the street for being "the house with the olive trees". We do indeed have six...

At our house we have a thing for the Ikea PS arm chair.  When we moved to Brisbane early last decade we bought one of these chairs, and pro...

I had limited time, like one afternoon to whip up a handmade gift for a visit that evening to a friend with a new baby.  What would I make? ...

This time last week I was all for getting a bit more snappy with my blogging - I'd only made four posts in January so far, I was really ...

After looking like I was doing a rather disturbing recycling project with on old t-shirt last weekend I am now back to report on my first f...

I've been having a problem with my t-shirts - I've been getting little holes in the front of them.  After a year of angst, last wee...