katybellabug

I have not made the Apple Picking Dress but I did add a Peter Pan collar to the Family Reunion dress. I did not need to add any length to the collar to accommodate for thicker fabric, but there was some tricky math. I wrote a tutorial for the Oliver+S blog which you can find here:…[Read more]

Good point Sarvi, Becky have a look here http://fiveandcounting-motherof5.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/how-you-bechickadee.html you can see how the collar is shaped.

To add a collar I would sew the shoulder seams and complete the front placket of the dress. I would then open the garment up a lie it flat.
Then take the collar of the Jumprope or Music…[Read more]

Good point Sarvi, Becky have a look here http://fiveandcounting-motherof5.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/how-you-bechickadee.html you can see how the collar is shaped.

To add a collar I would sew the shoulder seams and complete the front placket of the dress. I would then ope the garment up a lie it flat.
Then take the collar of the Jumprope or Music…[Read more]

Ah yes, that’s right! I feel 11% shorter already …

Have you already made the apple-picking dress? The opening of the button placket is off-center, so the back of the collar would be asymmetrical — just something to bear in mind (I have a very pretty blouse with an asymmetrical collar, it can look very nice). Afraid I’ve never done a collar from scratch so no other suggestions, but will watch this…[Read more]

I might be a nerd but I actually love the ‘sausage’ posts. I actually think this is one of things about food blogging that is so interesting — every time Deb Perelman posts on Smitten Kitchen she gets 300 questions about why do you do this? what happens if I do that? and you start to understand the dish and the process really differently than if…[Read more]

Awesome!

We get it on UKTV through foxtel but the second series hasn’t been advertised yet. Maybe it will be our turn next year.

It goes over the head okay?

There have been some really lovely raincoats made, I know @beachmom made a very professional one, as did @katybellabug.

I made one, for my son, using oilskin/dryzabone fabric. I couldn’t iron the seams so I used a tongue depresser and a bit of brute strength to ‘press’ the seams open.

Someone, recently commented that they wished they put a draw…[Read more]

Not about the sewing bee, but it is about British TV so I thought I’d add it here. This year is the second year that there have been 3 episodes of the programme ‘Liberty of London’. While a lot of it is about sales and being a modern profitable business, the first series followed the print designers a bit in one episode which was really…[Read more]

Not about the sewing bee, but it is about British TV so I thought I’d add it here. This year is the second year that there have been 3 episodes of the programme ‘Liberty of London’. While a lot of it is about sales and being a modern profitable business, the first series followed the print designers a bit in one episode which was really…[Read more]

Not about the sewing bee, but it is about British TV so I thought I’d add it here. This year is the second year that there have been 3 episodes of the programme ‘Liberty of London’. While a lot of it is about sales and being a modern profitable business, the first series followed the print designers a bit which was really interesting. They have…[Read more]

Well it will be an interesting day of sewing for me today. We had a huge storm last night and it took our power so the generator has been going all night will be likely on all day aswell. We will test its limits with the iron and aircon aswell as machines to see how much it can stand.

I didn’t sew yesterday, instead I was sick on returning from…[Read more]

Well it will be an interesting day of sewing for me today. We had a huge storm last night and it took our power so the generator has been going all night will be likely on all day aswell. We will test its limits with the iron and aircon aswell as machines to see how much it can stand.

I didn’t sew yesterday, instead I was sick on returning from…[Read more]

@Jane, thank you!

Have you heard the Vinyl Cafe podcast, Dave Cooks the Turkey? It is so funny.

I had a strange thing with flickr in that when I looked at the oliver and s flickr group at home then I could see my pictures, but if I looked on my Mum’s computer at her house I couldn’t. Turned out that this was because I was logged into flickr on my machine, and not on my Mum’s, and I had a funny setting on accessing the pictures, maybe…[Read more]

@katybellabug, I told you so!

@katybellabug, I told you so!