Girl Can Sew

Hello! Last week I finished my first project since starting the blog and now I'm really pleased to write my first pattern review. I really enjoyed this project as it was super simple, quick to sew and perfect for this heat wave we're having!  I picked up this pattern from Liberty because I just love the relaxed “cool” vibe that it has. I have always found Merchant & Mills patterns to have an All Saints feel to them and since I have never been able to afford any of their stuff I was really excited to find a pattern company with a similar style. I decided to make it in a beautiful aubergine linen I bought from Fabricland online which I think suits the relaxed summary feel of this style. It was a simple pattern to make, it has 6 pattern pieces and none of them require tailor’s tacks, just simple notches. It is well suited to a beginner sewer as there is not many technical parts, just normal sleeve insertion, a yoke, the front bib with a pleat and optional topstitchi...

Hi Sewers, Welcome to my blog and my first blog post! I am sure I will look back on this in a few years time and laugh about how clueless I was but we have to start somewhere don't we! I thought I would kick off by writing a little about me and why I decided to start my blog and my journey into sewing. It's difficult to pinpoint the exact point in time when I started sewing but from a child I was always making things and wanting to dress up my Barbie dolls. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I started to take it more seriously. At the time I thought that it would be considered cheating to use a sewing pattern and I wouldn't feel like I had truly made the clothes myself - it's a different story now! So without any knowledge of seam allowance or darts I started to draft my own patterns, it's fair to say this was not very successful! Nowadays I leave the pattern drafting to the experts and have built myself a large collection of paper patterns both vin...