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For all sew alongs, tutorials, including those from books as well as my own patterns

Free Sewing Pattern, Tutorial and Video – Double zip pouch

Along with the theme of Zakka month, I decided to tackle something that has been baffling me for a while. How to make a double zip pouch with two compartments. Well actually I wanted to make one with 3 zips but I decided to…

May 27, 2013

Free pattern and tutorial – Skirt with piped pockets.

This months free tutorial is partly inspired by the Skirts special in Cucito Spring 2013, my kids, and the Great British Sewing Bee! Yup! you heard me right. I heard so much about it but had given up hope of watching it since it…

April 30, 2013

Free Pattern, Tutorial and Sewing Video – A simple dress

I said this would be up on Monday, and now it’s Tuesday, almost Wednesday. What happened, was that I had to do a little housekeeping on my mac as I was running out of space on my startup disk, and to my horror, all…

February 27, 2013

Free patterns, how-to-make and my first video tutorial

Finally as promised, the fleece jacket with free patterns, step by step photos and a sewing video! Unlike the previous few sew-alongs, I didn’t announce this before hand, because I just wanted to post it here for anyone and everyone to read and sew…

December 10, 2012

Sew Along 2 – The Balloon Dress – Day 1

Good morning! Today we will start making the balloon dress. Before we begin, I’ll just make a quick explanation about the terms. The balloon dress is basically made up of two dresses. One wide dress on the outside (referred to in the instructions as…

August 27, 2012