With SewBrum coming up next week, I thought I’d share a personal guide to Birmingham city centre, taking in my favourite places to eat/shop/meander. I’m deeply biased; not only have I lived in the suburbs of Birmingham for my whole life, I have also visited the city centre every week or so since I was a […]
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I haven’t found as much time to blog recently as I would have liked. I don’t get hung up about it – despite (or perhaps because of) working as a project manager, I prefer to be fairly unorganised in my own time and don’t like to plan ahead very far. However, I do really enjoy blogging and miss
Following my own wrap-up post about The Sewing Weekender, I wanted to share the vlogs and blog posts published by attendees. I really enjoyed watching the footage, and seeing everyone’s photos and thoughts. Enjoy! ♥ Vlogs ♥ [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76eX1IPUsu0] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OOZqp8jaFE] [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMCN4Igb-sI] ♥ Blog Posts ♥ Jen at The Gingerthread Girl Melissa at Fehr Trade Susan at
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We (Kate, Rachel & I) first began plotting The Sewing Weekender at the end of April, and last weekend our UK sewing holiday took place at Murray Edwards College in Cambridge. There were 59 of us in total (50 attendees, plus 9 organisers/prefects/speakers), over 25 sewing machines (as quite a few attendees brought along their
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I’m very excited to be sharing my contribution to the Big Vintage Sew-along blogger tour today. Are you taking part? McCall’s have selected twenty McCall’s/Vogue/Butterick vintage patterns, and are donating money from the sale of those patterns to The Eve Appeal gynaecological cancer charity. There’s also a series of events taking place, including an afternoon tea
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I haven’t had much time to sew or to blog lately. What I have been doing is plenty of knitting and podcast-listening, since I can do those on my daily commute. I’ve also had a lovely movie-watching evening today, and have managed to squeeze in four films – I’m considering film number five, but should
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It’s a lovely (rare) sunny day in the UK so I’m sat in the garden blogging. That makes it easier to share these photos from a recent weekend break in Amsterdam, without wishing myself back there! These photos were taken in the gardens surrounding the Rijksmuseum, which are free to visit. The museum itself was one
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We have some amazing independent sewing businesses here in the UK, and as organisers of the Sewing Weekender, Kate, Rachel & I are lucky to have a number of these businesses sponsoring our event, which takes places in August. I’m always very pleasantly surprised with the generosity of small indie businesses – who, in my personal experience, often tend to
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I’m not normally someone who manages to squeeze projects out of small pieces of fabric. In fact, I normally always buy ‘safe’ amounts of both fabric and yarn, and end up with some left sat in my stash once the planned project is completed. However, lately I’ve started a few knitting projects where I’ve run out
Sign-up is now open for the SewBrum meet-up on Saturday 24th September: Sign Up Here! ♥ What? ♥ A (free-to-attend) meet-up of people who love to sew. Everyone is welcome, no need to be a blogger, just sign-up using the form above/below so we know to expect you. ♥ Itinerary ♥ The planned itinerary for Saturday 24th September
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