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    How to | Sew a Luxury Loungewear Set using the Hudson Pants and Jarrah Sweatshirt patterns…

    January 28, 2022 /

    I love a good loungewear set, it doesn’t take me long after walking in the door to change into something super cosy to sit and watch the tv in the evening, so this is one I’m really excited to share with you all. Back in autumn, over on YouTube, I made a video listing three high street looks I wanted to recreate for autumn/winter and one was a luxury loungewear set inspired by one similar to this Cashmere set from Debenhams. (My original inspiration was from The White Company but I can’t find that set anymore sadly). You can watch this video here and see what other looks I picked…

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    VLOG | Sew a cosy jersey tunic dress with me…

    January 24, 2022 /

    Hi everyone… This week’s video is a relaxed ‘sew day’ sew-along and I’m making up New Look 6298 which is a cosy jersey tunic dress as part of the Minerva #sewnwithnewlookchallenge. I hope you’ll enjoy and don’t forget to let me know if you’ve made this pattern and what you think of it 🙂 Thank you for watching! Sally xx

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    VLOG | Sharing my entire collection of handmade woven summer dresses…

    July 27, 2021 /

    Join me as a share and talk through every handmade woven summer dress I currently have in my wardrobe including some Sew Over It, Tilly and the Buttons and many more. I’ve really enjoyed making these collection videos and I hope you will too! 🙂 Thank you for watching! Sally xx

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    VLOG Fabric haul | What I bought in the January sales and some sewing plans

    January 17, 2021 /

    Hi everyone welcome to another fabric haul vlog talking about some fabrics I picked up in the January sales and some plans I have for what to make with them. I hope you’ll enjoy the video let me know if you have any ideas of what I should make with the fabrics. Sally xx

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    My thoughts on slow fashion and trying to shop more sustainably…

    February 7, 2020 /

    I LOVE clothes and I love fashion. You probably wouldn’t know this if you saw me on the school run these days. but I do.  In my younger, more carefree days I would spend a large proportion of my wages on clothes every month often only wearing something once, it was almost like a hobby, clothes were my interest and I wanted something new pretty much every weekend.  I’m almost ashamed to admit that now but maybe there wasn’t actually anything wrong with that at the time, it’s where I get my love of sewing from after all.  I also liked to study the clothes and see how they were…

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    The Seamstress Tag Vlog

    February 6, 2020 /

    For my second video I decided jump on board #theseamstresstag questionnaire. I hope you enjoy it, if you do I’d love you to consider subscribing and hitting the notification bell to keep up to date with all of my videos.

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