needlecord – Jay Dog Designs

Is it a dress or a pinafore?

I had been thinking about making a corduroy pinafore for a while and as luck would have it I found the perfect pattern in my recently subscribed to Simply Sewing magazine (https://www.gathered.how/magazines-simply-sewing/). The Carnaby dress by Nina Lee (https://www.ninalee.co.uk/shop/carnaby-dress/) can be used as a dress with or without sleeves or as a pinafore to wearContinue reading “Is it a dress or a pinafore?”

Rags to Riches

Perhaps I’m making a huge assumption here but old people tend to horde stuff. Perhaps its because times were hard and they never liked to throw things away in case it was needed again one day. My parents had a loft full of age old paperwork, card board boxes, old toaster and kettles, jars inContinue reading “Rags to Riches”