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I have to admit to being delighted that I was fortunate to be taught how to sew at school, for many reasons. One of them is being able to create  a dressing up outfit, all ready for the next school dress up day. My daughter is determined to look exactly like the pirate on the …

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Have you made a pillowcase dress yet for this project?? The lovely Louise of Sew Scrumptious is the co-ordinator in the UK, this is what she says about the project: “People who could sew were asked to make simple pillowcase dresses which were then delivered to girls living in poverty in the developing world. Girls …

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I don’t know about you but I fight(ignore) a constant battle re the volume of “stuff” in my sewing space. A few months back my husband hit upon the idea of fitting kitchen units for storing all my fabric in, sadly I fail to keep my stash down enough to be able to successfully put …

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A glass or two of wine later and I appear to have made a rash purchase of my own domain name – EEEEK!   As regular readers know I have been contemplating the step of moving from wordpress.com. to wordpress.org for  a while. The realisation that I am now getting visitors from google search engines, therefore if …

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