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Here you’ll find some notes about sewing, our projects, and some success stories, all about you! Read through the articles, and hopefully you’ll find some tips that will help you get up a notch with your sewing. If you like what you see, come and join us in the sewing club, or if you’re local, have a look at our courses.

Pattern Markings – What are they all about?

Pattern Markings seem like hieroglyphics when you first start dressmaking. A lot of marks and squiggles on your patterns that don’t mean anything to you. But pattern markings are essential to helping you put your pattern pieces together in the right way with the...

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Up your Sewing Game – 5 Techniques to Master

Want to up your sewing game? Mastering these 5 techniques will give big gains when it comes to the finish of your garments. When you start out dressmaking, there is so much to learn, you don’t really realise how much. As you progress you will find that you learn many...

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Beginner Top Tips & the Sewing Bee

I was asked to go on the radio last week to talk about The Great British Sewing Bee. They also wanted to know about my beginner top tips and that got me thinking about all the things I regularly tell my students when they are starting out! You can listen to me on BBC...

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Lost your Sew-Jo?… Take a break

If you have lost your sew-jo, (that’s sewing mojo) then sometimes the best thing you can do is take a break to find your sew-jo again. I’ve just come back from a full week off work. Probably the first full week off since the pandemic began. We managed a few days away...

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30 Reasons why Making Clothes is the Best!

Making clothes is the best hobby. It can become more than a lifestyle choice, than a hobby. Here are my reasons, can you think of any more? What you wear is completely unique.You can make something that is just your style.Love a style? You can make one in every colour...

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Choosing a Pattern for Your First Project

Choosing a pattern for your first garment making project can be overwhelming, I’ll help you to decide what to make. So you’ve decided you’d like to give making clothes a go! Amazing! Go for it! It’s a fantastic hobby to have and a very rewarding thing to do....

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Choosing the Right Fabric – Know your Fabrics

My students tell me that one of the trickiest things is choosing the right fabric to get the best results in their dressmaking project. It’s hard when there’s such a massive choice of different fabrics out there and many websites use different terms to describe the...

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I’ve Missed you! – Studio Reopened Now

I’m really pleased to say that my studio is now reopened fully for one to one and group classes. It feels like such a long time since I last welcomed a new class of Sewing School students to the studio! And boy, have I missed you all! I’ve really missed seeing the joy...

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What Sewing Machine Should I Get?

One of the questions that I get asked most is: What sewing machine should I get? And what I’ve realised over the years is that there isn’t a one size fits all answer. Deciding what sewing machine to buy is as wide and varied and personal as deciding which car to buy....

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Fabric Hauls – The Good, the Bad & the Ugly

I love to share all my online fabric hauls with you. I know how difficult it can be to choose the right fabric for a project especially when you can’t fondle the fabric before you buy. Recently I’ve been filming my online fabric purchases to share them with you, so...

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