A Little About Me
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...