It's Kids Clothes Week, which means loopy women (and men?) across the globe are sewing like crazy. Except me. The aim is to sew for an hour a day, all week. Oh, if only I had that hour! It was my son's birthday last weekend, which took up most of the previous week planning and creating, and it's left me behind with the...

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This may look like a sweet little girl, in a corduroy dress...   But this is actually the result of an experiment in fabric engineering. With dubious results... This is not a finely crafted blogpost. I'm revealing my 'sketch book' here, my less-than-perfect, creation. This is Secret Squirrel Dress Number 1, rejected by my 'quality control' in favour of the far more successful...

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Forgive me if I am a little excited - but I really am!  This is the first guest post of my very first series, Take One Dress! Back in November, when I picked up a vintage dress on a oh-so-rare visit to New York, I had an idea of using a garment as inspiration for others. And when I  suggested the idea to...

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