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Making your own clothes is better than shopping – No Contest!

by alisonrgreer | Sep 21, 2020 | Blog

Sometimes people say to me, “Why bother making clothes when you can buy them so cheaply?” Now I guess the people who think that are never going to be the sort of people who would “get it” but there are so many reasons that sewing my own clothes beats shop bought...

Slow Sewing – Continuing a Sewing Project Started in May

by alisonrgreer | Sep 14, 2020 | Blog

It was always my intention that this would be a slow sewing project, something just for me that I could take my time over and would love and treasure for years to come. I started cutting this out back in May during lockdown. The project is the Lichen Duster from Sew...

Back to School – 5 Reasons Why Adults Should Never Stop Learning to New Skills

by alisonrgreer | Sep 7, 2020 | Blog

This September, much more than any year that has gone before has a got those fresh start, back to school vibes! Are you all breathing a sigh of relief that the kids have gone back and some sort of new normality can start to get underway? What 2020 has shown me is how...

Repair Because you Care – Saving the Planet One Stitch at a Time!

by alisonrgreer | Aug 31, 2020 | Blog

One of my reasons for starting this business and wanting to teach as many people as possible how to make clothes for themselves and their family is my utter horror at fast fashion and the way that the people who sew those clothes are treated by the companies who make...

Perfectionism + Learning + Sewing – How to learn to let it go

by alisonrgreer | Aug 24, 2020 | Blog

If I had a pound for every time somebody pointed out the imperfections in the clothes they had made, I’d be… well a little bit closer to a millionaire than I am now! And do you know the really crazy thing is 99% of the time I wouldn’t have noticed the ‘imperfection’...

A Retrospective of my Bespoke Dressmaking 2009-2020 – Dresses of dreams

by alisonrgreer | Aug 14, 2020 | Blog

Having recently been reminded of one of a prom dress I made for a client back in 2015, through being shown an old school magazine with the dress being worn by the cover star. I thought it would be kinda fun to share with you a bit of a retrospective of some of the...
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