The Great British Sewing Bee - Week Eight Recap

Seven weeks have passed and we've said farewell to seven contestants.  Along the way we lost Cliff, Simon, Julie, Cerina, Jenni, David and Lynda.  So, after all that sewing and crying, here are the grand final contestants. Image Source - BBC © Out of the three remaining contestants, my favourite is definitely Chinelo.  She...

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Small Girls Let Loose on a Sewing Machine

Olivia and Samantha are both very keen to learn how to sew.  A while ago Olivia made a simple skirt: It was a great first sewing project, as it mostly involved sewing straight lines.  She really enjoyed it, and has been desperate to make something else.  I wanted to find a project that the girls could work on together, that...

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Making a Classic Breton Tshirt at The Thrifty Stitcher

This weekend I attended a workshop at The Thrifty Stitcher in Stoke Newington, learning how to make a classic Breton tshirt.  The class was run by Melissa Fehr of Fehr Trade.  It was a nice small class, with only four students - Amy, Charlene, Louise and myself.  It was great spending an afternoon with fellow sewers.  We...

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The Great British Sewing Bee - Week Seven Recap

It's semi-finals week, and I am more than usually excited!!! I had the great fun of attending a sewing class this weekend, and we spent ages chatting about the Great British Sewing Bee.  The consensus was that it was a terrific show, and was inspiring sewers to get their machines out and start sewing.  There's some negative press out there...

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Handy, Homemade Tray

I have been searching for ages for a simple tray to put on the dining room table to hold the salt and pepper, napkins and water jug.  It needed to be small (22x18cm) and I wanted it to have reasonably high sides (about 5cm).  Every tray I found was either too big, had shallow sides or was just plain ugly. In the end I decided I would just...

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The Cupboard Under The Sink

We don't have a lot of storage space in our kitchen, so every cupboard seems to be crammed with so many things, it's hard to keep it tidy.  The cupboard under the kitchen sink is one cupboard that really annoys me. I know it's not that bad.  Things are in containers and baskets, but it doesn't look nice and it's annoying that so many...

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