As my last two makes were useful wardrobe basics I gave myself permission to indulge myself with another dress – I just love to make dresses...

For approximately 360 days of the year my latest sewn outfit looks crazily optimistic when worn in my home city of London. But last week we ...

I do like how Burda Style magazine has, over the years, produced some interesting patterns for fairly easy to make tops. For my vacation in ...

In my last post I promised (myself as well as you!) that my next garment would be something easy. This skirt, made from pattern 114 in the J...

Thanks to everyone for your very nice comments about my shiny black satin and lace ‘glamorous’ dress featured in my last post. However, I cl...

The latest edition of Burda Magazine arrived on Sunday morning and I decided that this month, instead of deliberating, I would just plunge r...

I love it when the latest issue of Burda Style magazine arrives. Never mind that I have enough patterns in my stash or, indeed, enough back ...

As I was making this one it was definitely coming under the heading of Never Again! Burda give this top a two dot “Easy to Sew but More Time...

Way back at the beginning of March I mentioned that I was making this skirt, pattern 104 from the February issue of Burda Style magazine So...

I’m going on vacation next week and in an ideal world I would have started sewing a beautifully co-ordinated vacation wardrobe some months a...