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VLOG | Crafty catch up, new fabrics, sewing plans, knitting and news…
Hi everyone Thank you for joining me for another video. This week I’m talking about some new fabrics I’ve picked up, some sewing plans, knitting progress as well as some book and tv chat. I hope you’ll enjoy the video and I’d love you to subscribe to my channel if you haven’t already 🙂 Thank you for watching! Sally xx
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VLOG | #frugalfrocks2021 Free pattern and fabric choices | Help me decide what to sew…
Hi everyone, welcome back to my channel. In this week’s video I’m talking all about the #frugalfrocks challenge including some of my free pattern and fabric picks and how you can get involved if you’d like to take part. I hope you enjoy the video! Sally xx
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VLOG – Sharing my 10 favourite makes of 2020…
Hello everyone welcome to another vlog, today I’m showing and talking all about my favourite makes of 2020. Everything I mention should be linked in the description of the YouTube video but don’t hesitate to ask if you have any questions I hope you like my favourites! Sally xx
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VLOG – A day/week in my life running my small handmade business…
Hello everyone – welcome to my first ‘day/week in my life’ video running my small handmade business Poppy & Primrose. I hope you enjoy this different style of video I really enjoyed making it. I’ve listed anything I talk about in the video that might be of interest below. If you do like the video I’d love it if you could give it a thumbs up so that I know whether similar videos might be interesting. I’d also love it if you pop me a comment below and tell me what you’ve been up to this week. As always, thank you so much for watching and if you’re already a…
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Lulu Gathered Mini Dress by The Aware Collection – A pattern review in collaboration with Makerist
For this blog post I’ve teamed up with Makerist.com who kindly invited me to review two of their patterns and are offering my lovely followers the chance to win one of three free patterns in a GIVEAWAY over on my Instagram account @secret_life_of_a_seamstress. I’d love you to pop over and enter if you can 🙂 Makerist are also kindly offering 20% off of all full price patterns so if you’d like to treat yourself to a lovely sewing pattern as well as enter the giveaway simply enter the code SECRETLIFE20 at checkout. *Please be aware that the giveaway ends on Monday 21 September and discount code ends on Monday 19 October, so…
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Megan Nielsen Sudley Dress/Top Hack
I think I have an obsession with Megan Nielsen dress patterns, there’s always so much potential to adapt and so many different variations to the patterns. When I saw this beautiful blue spot crepe fabric on the Minerva website loved it immediately and wasn’t sure what to make with it at first, then the Sudley Dress pattern came into my life and I knew it would be the perfect match. I wasn’t sure at first whether to make the dress version or a top from this fabric and in the end I settled on something in between. A sort of hack of the pattern to make a peplum top. Here’s…
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Summer Sewing Inspiration – five looks I’m loving…
Like a lot of us, even though we’re still in lockdown here in the UK, the nicer weather has got me thinking about all of the lovely summer makes I want to sew. Yes, even though I’m spending most of my time at home in comfy loungewear I still need lots of pretty dresses ok husband!! 😉 Here’s a little round up of summer inspiration I’ve collected over the last few weeks. I’ve linked to anything I mention so if you want to take a closer look just click on any of the links or pictures and it should take you directly to the item. The Floral Midi Dress I…
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My Sew Over It Top Collection Vlog
In this video I thought I’d show you all of the Sew Over It top patterns I’ve made. Click the link below to watch and don’t forget to subscribe if you’d like to 🙂 Thanks so much for watching! Sally xx
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Sew With Me Vlog | Safiya Wrap Playsuit
Join me as I sew the Safiya Wrap Playsuit from the new Tilly and the Buttons book Make It Simple. This was such a fun vlog to film, if you enjoy it do let me know if you’d like to see more of this type of video. Have you made anything from this book yet? I’m looking for inspiration for my next make… Lots of love as always! Sally xx
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Five of My Favourite Sewing Tools
For this blog post I thought I’d do a little round up of my top five favourite and most used sewing tools. I could have added many more but these are my current favourites J I’ve linked the products in each section if you would like to check them out for yourself. Burda Tracing Paper Not sure if this can be considered a ‘tool’ but I guess it kind of is. I absolutely love this stuff, since I trace off all of my patterns now I go through quite a lot of it. I’ve tried various types of paper (I’ve even tried greaseproof baking paper) for tracing patterns and I…
