Another baby arrived into the world recently. Well, babies arrive into the world all the time, probably every minute of every day. But this particular baby arrived as a bundle of joy for my cousin. Unfortunately, they live up North (being a true Londoner- ‘north’ is anything outside the m25) and with Ramadan going on, and…
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The little chronicles of a small time sewer: The graduation dress, Part 2
Day 4 Today it was the shoulder seams and side seams. Nice and simple. After this, the ‘cocoon’ shape really started coming together! It’s quite an unusual shape for a dress but I quite like it. After getting that done I felt encouraged to keep going, the day was young! Why not do the sleeves?…
Read MoreThe little chronicles of a small time sewer: The graduation dress, Part 1
6 years of uni. 7 days until graduation. 1 dress. 0 experience. Could it be done? Day 1 I decided to use another print at home pattern from the brilliant people at Burdastyle (this time following the pattern to the T). Guess how many pages it required? 71. 71 pages!! Perhaps somewhat ironically, I decided…
Read MoreThe little chronicles of a small time sewer: Interfacing, zipper feet and gobbledegook
As part of my ‘training’ for making myself a graduation dress I decided to make a practice dress. That way I could (hopefully) make all my mistakes when it didn’t matter- especially since it would be my first time inserting zips and sleeves- something that sent shivers down my spine… Luckily I had some material…
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The little chronicles of a small time sewer: upcycling
In the middle of revision week I got it into my head that I needed a tailors mannequin. Ok, maybe ‘needed’ isn’t the right word. Perhaps, ‘wanted’ was more appropriate…[I tried the ‘need’ argument with Tree and he gave me one of those who are you trying to kid looks…] But as you do during revision time, you…
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The little chronicles of a small time sewer
Thanks to the friendly folk over at WordPress, all you faithful followers should have been transferred across from my old site to this new sparkly, rainbow skied and fairy dusted website of mine. From what I can tell, you’ve all been accounted for- including the new followers who joined mid-renovation (hello there!). All of you…apart…
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A (little) new beginning
Hello all! It’s been too long! It’s actually been six months since I posted something craft related, and three since I’ve posted anything at all. Now, I haven’t been sitting on my bum, twiddling my thumbs- no, no. That would’ve been preferable to what I was actually doing. Which was: revising. Sigh. The bane of my life.…
Read MoreThe little awards season
Hello all! We’ve finally returned from our two and a bit months of travelling around Tanzania and Zanzibar. Climbing mountains, swimming with turtles, laying under the stars. Sigh. But we’re happy to be back to the UK with it’s freakishly cold March weather. Brr. But unfortunately for this blog, we’ve had to hit the books…
Read MoreA little hello
Hello all! Happy new year! And a happy 1st birthday to the little pomegranate blog! Whoop! We made it this far. Thanks for all the support, follows, views, likes. It is all so appreciated. Just to let you know, I’m actually travelling for 2 months so alas, no crafting going on over here (don’t think…
Read MoreA little tee hee
My sewing skills are still very much in the ‘extreme beginner’ realm (remember my maxi skirt fail?). That said, I have since managed to make a maxi skirt win! But I’m afraid that’s not what today’s post is about. It’s actually about an experiment with the remaining cloth from the maxi skirt. I had about…
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