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The Wedding Dress – Part 1 of idk
It’s been a while since my last post and over the course of 2024 I’ve been working on a rather big and exciting project. I got engaged late last year (wooop!) and as well as pretty much immediately diving into wedding planning, I knew that I wanted to make my own dress. Still feeling cautiously…
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The Summer Heat Equation
As a lover of quick sewing projects, sewing for summer is the best. Colours and patterns look great in the sun, hardly anything requires a set-in sleeve, and you can be assured that your hard-work won’t end up being covered by a woolly jumper. It’s unfortunate therefore that I am not built for the heat,…
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Needles on a plane
As I unpacked my rotary cutters and rummaged through my fabrics, I insisted to my boyfriend that I was, in fact, packing for Greece. As much I love holidays abroad, I’m always sad to leave my sewing behind. I keep promising myself to do more staycations, but after a long British winter you just want…
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Pottering about again
It’s been a while – maybe 15 years – since I got my hands stuck in the mud and god it feels good to be back. My lovely friend Ella almost single-handedly inspired me. I just couldn’t get enough of seeing what she made on Instagram, especially her before-and-afters showing the magic (and mystery) of…
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Kintsugi-style bowl repair
Materials & tools Kintsugi – meaning “golden join” or “golden seams” – is a Japanese mending technique that celebrates the imperfections in a broken piece of pottery. Japanese artisans added gold dust to the lacquer that joined the shards of a pot. My parents went to Japan some years ago and brought me back a…
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The power of the “Done” list
Everyone uses to-do lists. For some it’s a just a list in their phone’s built-in notes app. For others it’s a complicated spreadsheet with tags, due-dates and filtering functionality. And some people, who clearly worship the reign of chaos, keep the list in their heads. To-do lists are useful for keeping track of personal projects,…
The Impatient Sewist 