Flatten out the booklet and fold in half short end to short end. Using this as a pattern, cut two pieces from fabric. I didn’t have enough fabric so I sewed 4 pieces together and finished the edges with a zig zag or overlock stitch (image below). piece smaller pieces of fabric together before cutting…
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Ready for a Fashion Revolution?
How to get involved for Fashion Revolution Week: 22 to 28 April 2019 Tomorrow is the start of Fashion Revolution Week. The sixth year in which the charity are encouraging us to get involved and challenge our favourite fashion brands with the question ‘Who Made My Clothes?’. Fashion Revolution was established in 2013 a year after…
Mid-Century Modern Style
A fan of the Mid-Century Modern style from the 1950’s and 60’s, I’d never considered where the phrase came from. Journalist Laura Fenton explains ‘Author Cara Greenberg coined the phrase “midcentury modern” as the title for her 1984 book, Midcentury Modern: Furniture of the 1950s’. Fenton goes on to theorise why the style is increasingly popular. Head to…
Zero Waste Sewing: 8 top tips for using your fabric scraps
Capes: For all kinds of heroes
Do you ever think about something then can’t stop noticing it? A bit like being on a health kick then being faced with chocolate cake at every waking moment? This is how I feel about capes. Last winter I started noticing the odd cape worn by a fashionista around London. Ever since then they keep popping into…
Vintage Fair this Sunday – 10 Feb
I’m dusting off my rails and display boxes ready for my first vintage shopping event of the year. Judy’s Vintage Fair at Bethnal Green this Sunday, 10th February 2019, 10:30 for early birds at £3 entrance fee or £2 after 11:30. Finishes at 4:30pm. Click here for the Facebook invite. I’ll be selling a selection…
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams – The stories behind the dresses
Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams opens this weekend at the V&A in London. A continuation of the exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the London edition displays 500 Dior Haute Couture pieces, each one of them hand made with 60 percent new content from the Paris show. As a member of the V&A, I…
Seven Vintage Floral Fabrics For January Cheer
Seven Vintage Floral Fabrics for January Cheer From a rare piece of 1950’s barkcloth to a 1970’s bright striped floral; Meet seven vintage fabrics that will instantly cheer up the January blues. Each of these vintage fabrics brings a smile to my face and joy to my heart. After the fairy lights have been packed away, January needs…
A Review of 2018 via My Blog
With all the frantic rushing around getting ready for Christmas, I find it calming to mentally package up the current year before starting with the new. What began as a routine admin task to tidy up my blog, ended up being the perfect way to reflect on 2018… A couple of orange creams rattling around in the…
Thinking Back to Christmas Past
Christmas was a magical time at Olive Road, the street where my grandparents lived and the place my vintage fabric shop is named after. My Nana Mary would cover every inch of their tiny house with Christmas paraphernalia. ‘It is for the children’ Nan would reply to our giggles when Father Christmas ho-ho-hoed every time we entered the front room.…