Vote for July’s MIY Maker

Argh, it’s that time of year when time starts to morph into one big blob and the end of the month slipped past me unnoticed. So, a little later than planned, here are your choices for July’s MIY Maker.

Clockwise from top left:

• a Fulwood dress by Ros
• Sharon’s Granville wrap skirt from my second book “A Beginner’s Guide to Making Skirts”
• comfy cuffed trousers by MissNicJ from my 1st book “The Beginner’s Guide to Dressmaking”
• Christine’s hacked Rusholme skirt from “A Beginner’s Guide to Making Skirts”.

Who gets your vote to be July’s MIY Maker and win their next MIY Collection pattern for free?

Leave a comment with your choice.  I’ll announce the winner on Saturday. Voting is also open on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Full details on how you can enter your make for August’s MIY Maker are here.

Vote For June’s MIY Maker

It crept up on me this month – where on earth did June go??!! Here are your four wonderfully summery choices for June’s MIY Maker. Whose make gets your vote?

Clockwise from top left:

• Sarahrose’s mini shift dress from my first book “The Beginner’s Guide to Dressmaking”
• Yaarit’s gathered waist MIY Collection Fulwood dress
• a MIY Collection Walkley vest by @ethelsimages on Instagram
• Tracy’s Brighton button-through skirt from my second book “A Beginner’s Guide to Making Skirts”.

So, another crop of fabulous makes all worthy of being this month’s MIY Maker and wining their next MIY Collection pattern for free. Who do you think should win?

Leave a comment with your choice.  I’ll announce the winner on Monday. Voting is also open on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Full details on how you can enter your make for July’s MIY Maker are here.

The Fulwood – Available Now as a Complete Making Kit!

Better late than never, my most popular pattern – The Fulwood Dress is now available as a complete making kit.

The kit contains everything you need to make the dress with all the trimmings (collar, pleats, pockets!):

• printed pattern
• over 2.5m of beautiful quality 100% cotton denim in a choice of 2 washes; a pale bleached wash and a deep indigo wash (enough to allow for shrinkage when you pre-wash your fabric)
• and matching thread.

All delivered straight to your door with free P&P (UK only) so you can just get sewing.

There really are so many ways to make this pattern (some of which I’m still trying out myself), see inspiration for how to make the Fulwood on Instagram and check out this link to a recent review. There’s also a great guest post here by Anne Acosta for how to move the pleats to different positions.

What are you waiting for? Get yours now, I only have limited stocks….

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