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I often get asked how to know how much fabric to buy for any given garment when you haven’t got the pattern or details with you. Well…

 On a beautiful hot sunny August Saturday six of us travelled to Wells in Somerset to have a day out and shop for fabrics. We had a…

How many times have I moved?….mmm let me see….from my bedsit at 18 to this one will be the 13th! If you include business moves it would…

On Friday 26th October five of us met at Chippenham station for our first fabric shopping trip to London! We arrived at Paddington mid morning and headed…

Aside from teaching, I am always working on private commissions, whether designing and making clothes or interior soft furnishings. This year a large portion of my time…

I have been trying to get a group of young sewers together for a regular fortnightly or monthly class, maybe after school or Saturday morning or in…

Eileen came to me with some basic sewing experience. Her problem was her arms! She has a fantastic figure but her upper arms are disproportionately larger and…

These are fun items, made by hand with felt and decoration and are great for Christmas, Easter, Valentines Day or just as little gifts for children or…

A bit of a mystery to the uninitiated, but there is a lot of fun to me had … Choosing, configuring fabric, colour and patterns, using simple or…

If you would like more intense one-to-one learning then I also offer private sewing classes for 1 or more hours at certain times of the week, and…