Month: December 2009

I have decided to set myself a sewing challenge this year. Work is (at present) looking less manic than last year – hurrah! – so I want to make the most of it and get some sewing done for myself.So this is the plan: At the start of each month I decide on a project…

When life is lacking in sewing time, I rejoice that I learned to knit a few years ago. It gives me just enough of a creative kick without needing all that set-up, tidy-away, table, good light business that dressmaking requires. In the last couple of years I have mostly knit to patterns, lacking the skill…

Don’t faint with shock. I am still alive. December has been almost as strange as November, but Christmas is over and I am back in the studio and there is stuff happening! Although admittedly, these here happened before Christmas. Neither photo was taken with the aim of showing off the dresses at their best advantage,…

Despite the fact that I’ve written two sewing books in the last two years, in years gone by I always imagined myself writing a cookery book. Instead I cook myself interesting, mostly invented meals, read cookery books & food writing (although not as much as I would like to) and write a very occasional food…

My book came out in the US & Canada last month! Sew It Up has been retitled The Sewing Bible and has a lovely new red cover, which I absolutely love! It’s exactly the same book just with American terms and imperial measurements. I’m delighted to say that it’s going down really well and has…