A couple of pictures taken a few weeks ago in our local park. I don’t think I’ve ever shared any pictures of this matching Hello Kitty (Grainline Studio) set being worn together. Back in 2023, we visited Japan and I bought a Hello Kitty quilted fabric from Tomato to make a Grainline Tamarack jacket. I […]
Pattern: Tamarack Jacket by Grainline Studio Sewing time taken (excluding cutting out): 4 hours Fabric: Faux fur from Samuel Taylors / Sew Up North 2018 This faux fur Grainline Studio Tamarack Jacket was a long time coming. I first decided to make a Tamarack in faux fur in November 2015, after seeing a RTW faux
Phil and I dragged out the Christmas holiday as long as possible, spending a few days in Alicante before returning to work this week. These pictures, of garments I’ve previously blogged, were taken while we were away (Malachi Vest / In the Folds Jumpsuit / Tamarack Jacket). I didn’t spend a lot of time sewing
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Another week, another Linden! This Linden features a very simple ‘hack’, and is my entry for the “Stitched with a Twist” Instagram challenge. I’ve been planning to make this Linden since last March when I spotted the sweatshirt below in an email from Uniqlo. I thought it would be easy to recreate using the Linden
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Autumn is here and with it new Grainline Studio Lindens are entering my wardrobe. I cut out and prepared (pinned all initial seams) two Linden sweatshirts during evenings this week, and then sewed both sweatshirts today. I managed to sew the first – pictured here – in a couple of hours this morning, meaning that
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Before these pictures no longer look seasonal, here is my Grainline Studio Tamarack Jacket, photographed during the brief period of snowy weather we had here in Birmingham in December. I’ve been planning to make a Tamarack Jacket for some time, but was waiting to find a pre-quilted fabric, which I haven’t seen on sale very
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This would have been my contribution for the Sewcialists TNT month, but I missed the month (November)! This is my ninth blogged Linden. I was listening to the Love to Sew podcast episode about sewing patterns recently (episode 17), and discussion of the pluses/minuses for PDF and printed patterns. For me, my use of the Linden
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Just a quick post to share this amazing Linden which I received as part of the Linden Swap organised by the extraordinarily lovely Victoria (@sewmyown on Instagram). I received this Linden from Elinor (@el_pepperell on Instagram), and in turn made a Linden for another participant (I was really late so they won’t have received it yet,
This is my latest Linden Sweatshirt (number seven blogged). It’s View A, Size 0 – although in this fabric I should probably have sized up to a 2 as it has limited stretch. The original inspiration for this jumper were the excellent British wool band jumpers which Hades released earlier in the year. The Hades jumpers
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It’s been a really busy week, so this is just a quick post with another Linden Sweatshirt. This quilted Linden was started with the leftover fabric from this quilted jacket, however I didn’t have quite enough so ended up going back to Barry’s for an extra 1/2 metre! Not such successful stash busting… The ribbing WAS
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