Happy Mother's Day! Or at least it is if you're here in the UK! And that also means it's the very first post in my new series, From My Mother to Me...celebrating the sewing gifts and more from mothers to daughters. I'm kicking off a seven-Sunday series, leading up to Mothers Day in the USA, Australia and all kinds of other places on...

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There's a sewing challenge running right now over on Project Run and Play to tap into our animal instincts... The theme for the week is 'Put me in the Zoo.' Now I'm feeling a little smug with this one - been there, done that... A few months ago I wrestled with a shark, elephant and a boa constrictor to create an outfit, so...

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Some announcements: Firstly; I haven't blogged any sewing in a while, but that's not because I haven't been sewing. I simply haven't been able to document it, because my camera has disappeared into camera-heaven.  But, hurrah, I now have a new camera,  poised and ready for a new spring season of sewing. And just in time. Because.... Ta Da... 2nd Announcement: As-it-seams is...

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We're half way through March and the sun is (sometimes) shining. So last Sunday I packed up a picnic, loaded Mr As-it-seams, Missy and Torin into the car and headed off into the sunshine to one of our favourite destinations, a 5,000 year-old Neolithic burial chamber, known as Waylands Smithy. It's a very special place; stunning views and a sense of timelessness. The...

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It's the first Monday of March, and that means that it's time for the next stop on the Take One Dress  journey.  And I am so thrilled to have Jenya from While She Was Sleeping to take up the challenge posed by Marta from Do Guincho in February. Jenya lives in Australia, but I really wish she didn't! We stumbled upon each other...

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