If you look back over my makes for the Simple Sew Blog, you will notice that I’m a firm believer in making a pattern work hard! I generally make more than one of the same pattern, and I try to find ways of adapting it or hacking it, to make it seem different. There are many good reasons for working …
Gabberdashery’s Lena Wrap Dress
Hello you lovlies! I come to you today all dressed in my finest in my newest arrival to my party frocks… a luxourious velvet Lena dress! I have had my eye on the Lena wrap dress for a while and actually thought it was a literal wrap dress but it’s a mock one and I’m ok with that as it …
Looks Like I Made It’s Stylish Shell Top Challenge
Up till now, all us Simple Sew Bloggers have each made different patterns each month but this time we are all having a go at the same one to show how many variations the pattern has… this is the Simple Sew Stylish Shell Top Challenge!! For this month’s round of Simple Sew patterns posts, the whole blog team are using …
Pigeon Wishes’ Classic Culottes
Ok, so I have two main aims for this blog post. One, to turn any last remaining culottes doubter into believers and secondly to convince anyone who has this pattern in there stash to give it a go 😉 So these are my first pair of culottes ever…Yes ever!! I’ve held out on the culottes trend up until now! and …