Wondering what to do tomorrow? Vintage shopping is always a fun Sunday activity. I’m at Judy’s vintage fair tomorrow with my vintage fabric stand. Find me at the Eco Pavilion amongst all the fashion stalls. £4 entry ticket (£5 early bird) also gets you entry to the Furniture Flea down the road at the Art…
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A blog focused on vintage fabric, vintage style, sewing inspiration and eco friendly fabrics. Ideas to help using up fabric scraps and creating outfits from narrow widths of vintage fabric. Tips and ideas on sewing patterns, workshops, fabric and vintage shopping events and sewing books.
Gabrielle Chanel: Fashion Manifesto
Part One: Textiles Exhibition Review from the Chanel fashion exhibition at the V&A London Gabrielle Chanel is one of the most important designers of the past 100 years. She was The 19th Century designer.Oriele Cullen, Curator of the exhibition at the V&A, South Kensington (1) Gabrielle Chanel Fashion Manifesto is a hot ticket. As a…
Summer hols & Autumn Events
Hello! Thanks for stopping by my online shop. I’m on holiday for a few weeks. If you see a fabric you like, please continue with your order to ensure someone else doesn’t snap it up. I’m afraid I can’t ship it to you until 4 September as I run my business on my own. I…
Tartan
V&A Dundee Tartan is the first exhibition curated especially for the Dundee branch of the V&A, which opened in 2018. ‘The exhibition celebrates the global story of Tartan. It champions tradition and playful design. Displaying 400 designs and objects, Tartan is a set of rules to be broken.’ Curator Kirsty Hassard explains at an online…
Warhol – The Textiles
Andy Warhol Fabric Exhibition at The Fashion & Textile Museum London Rushing along the Southbank of the Thames, I was already late to meet my husband in Bermondsey, when I noticed a Quentin Blake exhibition at the Bankside Gallery. I cursed for not having time to pop in and waded through the crowds by The…
Heat press fabric design workshop
Gina is running 2 more workshops this June (2023). Head to her website to book. Find the review of the workshop I attended below. Everyday I am inspired by the vintage fabrics that surround me in my studio. I’m in awe of the colours, prints and textures. I love creating mini collections with fabrics from…
Summer Sewing Inspiration
Wendy Smock Hack by Maven Patterns Maven’s newsletter popped into my inbox yesterday and made me smile that Sharon from Maven is busy making a holiday wardrobe a few days before she heads of to Japan. She asks if we are all the same, making ahead of a tight deadline? Of course we are! I…
Sew Sustainable Fair
Summary of our first eco sewing event Saturday 22 April Thanks to everyone who came along to our fair on Saturday. I was nervous before it opened, ‘we will have too many people, not enough people?’ but all worked out in the end. It was lovely to see visitors I recognised from other sewing events…
Sustainable Sewing Tips
Fashion Revolution Week at The Sew Sustainable Fair, London Saturday 22 April is Earth Day and the start of Fashion Revolution Week 2023. Which coincided with our first eco sewing event, Sew Sustainable Fair. We are took part in Fashion Revolution Week with a pledge wall to encourage sewists to get involved. Make a pledge…
Bernat Klein: Design in Colour
At the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh Design means to enjoy the exploration of new possibilities. It means to take pleasure in finding new solutions to old problems; or to have fun juggling with a number of old solutions until they suddenly click and coalesce into one, beautiful, new solutionBernat Klein, 1976 I’ve been lucky…