March 18, 2016

Sewing: World Book Day - How to Train Your Dragon

World Book Day was a Viking inspired affair... due to a friend having a Horrible History party a little while back and I knew our costum...

October 17, 2015

Fashion Accessories and Materials in the early 1900's

Image: French Garden House I borrowed a fabulous book from the library called, Fashion since 1900: The complete source book by John Peac...

October 1, 2015

Discover: The True Cost of Fast Fashion

Two months ago I watched the brilliant documentary, The True Cost .  The movie highlighted the complexities of the Fast Fashion industry ...

September 29, 2015

Discover: Spring / Summer Colour Prediction 2016

Lela Rose Via New York Fashion Week Live Lela Rose A rainbow palette is the hot tip for Spring / Summer 2016 according to Vogue, w...

September 25, 2015

Life in London - A snapshot of where we live

Sep 2014 We've just past the one year mark of our new life in London which still feels surreal.  We've had lots of lovely times ...

September 21, 2015

Discover: Inspirational Sewing Blogs

Photo: Felicia Semple - The Craft Sessions The Craft Sessions is currently rating number one on my 'virtual bookshelf' .   Cr...