My First Blog Post....

Well Hello There!

Ive decided to write a blog about my sewing adventure.

I was bought a sewing machine as a gift for Christmas 2014, and whilst I have made a few dresses for my daughter, that is literally the extent of my sewing experience.

This pink floral dress had a fully faced bodice, with a little gathered skirt and was buttoned up the centre back.

This duck egg blue floral dress was quite easy to do and was the first time I had ever used a sewing machine so I'm quite proud of this one! it had an elasticated neck, with a little loop button closure at the back, i used contrasting yellow floral fabric to interface the armholes, and i just love the matching hat, this outfit looked lovely on her!

And this is my daughter Emily modelling another one of my makes.

this floral one (i like florals, im not sure if you can tell :D) was the same pattern as the dress above, i just shortened it to make a top.

I have made a few other outfits for her but I cant find any pictures of them at the moment...

so, My new years resolution this year was to make more things with my sewing machine, and i'm really keen to get started on making me a few items of clothing too! 

I really got into the great british sewing bee and since then i have been following tillys blog and lauren has opened a haberdashery shop in moseley which is 10 minutes up the road from me! my christmas present this year was a dressmaking course at Guthrie and Ghani (Lauren's shop) learning to sew Tilly's 'Coco' dress. To say I'm excited about that is a bit of an understatement, it's next week and i can not wait!! I've ordered my ponte knit fabric, but i cant show you a photo as it hasnt arrived yet :(

I've ordered two metres of teal ponte knit and half meter of tan coloured ponte knit for the patch pockets.

I've got my eye on another of Tilly's patterns too; the Bettine dress. it just looks like such a versatile dress, lovely for the summer with a pair of converse but also lovely in the colder months layered with a long sleeve top, tights and boots. Ive ordered some lovely light blue chambray fabric to make the Bettine, which im going to get started on after ive made my coco. 

I love the Collette Ginger pattern too, so i will be making that too, and I want to make tilly's clemence skirt because I like the idea of drafting my own pattern for it. 

My family and I will be going away for a weeks holiday in June down to Newquay for a week and I want to have good few handmade outfits to take away with me, so I need to get cracking! 

My next post wont be until after i have made the coco, so hopefully i will be sharing pictures of a successful make! 

Thanks for stopping by! 

happy sewingggggg :)