Piping and Buttons – but Sparkly Please!

After my lemon version of M6696, reviewed in details here, I definitely absolutely vitally needed a plainer version. But as you’ve probably guessed, my vision of plain is not exactly common view, I the lady who never ever wear jeans on the school run. So here is M6696 number 2, in a blue chambray but […]

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Compare and Contrast: the Summer Wrap Dress

As I told you in my previous article, I did make a second navy version of the M7081 dress, pretty much immediately after the first coral one. So here it is, in a little compare and contrast exercise with its twin sister! I reviewed this pattern in full details here, so I’m not going to […]

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Summer Wrap

My idea to take pictures of this dress as soon as the sun came out was definitely a good one! It was two weeks ago and since then, I haven’t been able to wear any of my newly-sewn summer dresses at all because it was far too cold, so frustrating!!! So this one is M7081 […]

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Lemons and Buttons

This is the last of my lemon dresses, I promise!!! The lemon collection has been going strong this Spring, but it is fully complete now, as I have no more lemon fabric left in my stash… So the latest lemon addition to my wardrobe is with a duck egg background (I have reviewed its white […]

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