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Yesterday I did a Subtraction Cutting class with Julian Roberts @subtractioncutting He's developed many truly innovative methods of cutting garments over the years and is incredibly generous with his knowledge. If he offers more classes I 100% recommend you sign up. He's a a very inspirational teacher and designer and will constantly challenge you to look at things differently. Thank you Julian for turning my dusty brain inside out and back to front!!***UPDATE - BOTH MACHINES ARE NOW SOLD***I recently bought this gorgeous little sketchbook from @beyond_measure_uk it's the perfect size to put in my pocket and take on walks. I love that it has lots of different papers in too. Looking forward to taking it on some adventures!! 🥾✏🖌🖍Good post day yesterday!! Really looking forward to getting stuck into this @orsoladecastro Congratulations on a timely book that looks to be packed with facts and inspiration ✂️Facebook
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Inspiration For Your Entries to my Skirt Book Competition
Beginner’s Guide to Making Skirts Competition
Posted in Beginner's Guide to Making Skirts, Books by Wendy, Competitions, Sewing Patterns by Wendy, Social Media
Tagged beginners guide to skirts, beyond measure, ditto fabric, dressmaking competition, ernest wright & son, faberwood fabric, janome, Love Sewing magazine, miy skirts, sewing compeition, textile garden, win a sewing machine
MIY March 16 – Week 2 Round Up!
I need a time machine, I can’t believe another week has slipped by. It was another inspiring week of MIY March though and there are now almost 3300 #miymarch16 photos on Instagram. We’re taking over, I love it!!
Week 2’s themes covered everything from sewing heroes, peeping inside people’s sewing zones and embracing everything slow, here were mine and Emma’s top picks from each day (I have to admit this task gets harder every time as there are more and more great pictures to choose from):
DAY 7 – SEW & STYLE HEROES – what a varied bunch!
DAY 8 – SEW ZONE – a nosey peek behind the scenes of all those sewing spaces….
DAY 9 – SLEEVES – the humble sleeve in all its varied forms.
DAY 10 – TROUSERS OR PANTS? – in celebration of the worldwide and hilarious confusions this can cause!
DAY 11 – HOLD IT TOGETHER – our second Prizeday Friday sponsored by Textile Garden, this time 2 of these top 4 picks were the lucky winners of a voucher to spend on beautiful buttons and notions from Maggie.
And DAY 13 – SLOW – one of my favourites so far and something I plan to do more of this year.
Now how can you fail to be inspired by that lot?! If you’re feeling inspired enough to join in follow me @thatwendyward and Emma @dressmakerssocial on Instagram. Full details on how to join in are in this post.
As an added incentive, this week’s Prizeday Friday is from Ernest Wright & Son….!
Missed Week 1? It’s here.
MIY March is Back!!
Did you take part in MIY March last year?
If so, I hope you’ll be joining myself and Emma again and if not, you need to join in this year! MIY March (aka make-it-yourself March) is bigger and better for 2016, I’ve got 5 amazing sponsors offering some great prizes for each week during March.
Most of the prizes will be available internationally, but some will only be open to the UK, I’ll make that clear when I post that day’s topic.
Here’s the list of daily topics to whet your appetite and start planning your pictures, get thinking!
Here’s how to join in:
- everyday in March post a sewing themed photo to Instagram inspired by the daily topic from the list above, I will post a topic reminder each morning
- use the hashtag #miymarch16 in the caption of your picture
- follow me @thatwendyward and Emma @dressmakerssocial so that you know each day’s theme and can check out our daily top 4 and Prizeday Friday winners
- everyday myself and Emma will choose our favourite 4 pictures to share and repost with you all
- on Prizeday Fridays you will also need to follow the sponsor to enter and the sponsor will choose their winner from our favourite 4
- Prizeday Friday winners will be announced on Monday morning of the following week
- if your account is set to “private” no-one will be able to see your pics so you won’t be able to join in!
So, what’s not to like? Exercise your little grey cells, meet like-minded people from around the world, win prizes and get inspired!
If you’re not already on Instagram there is lots of help for how to set up your account and how to use Instagram here.
Look forward to meeting you!!
Posted in Competitions, MIY March, Other Events & Workshops, Social Media
Tagged Cico books, ditto fabrics, dressmakers social, ernest wright & son, instagram photo a day, Love Sewing magazine, make it yourself march, MIY collection, miymarch, miymarch16, prizeday fridays, textile garden, Wendy Ward
MIY Collection Scissors by Ernest Wright & Son!
OK, so it’s no secret round here that I’m EW’s number 1 scissor fan (read why here)! I tentatively ran an idea past Nick this summer about making some custom MIY Collection scissors, I didn’t even know if this was something that was possible or that he would ever consider doing, but joy of joys he said yes and here’s the result!!
Ernest Wright’s 8″ dressmaking shears and large bow embroidery scissors with custom white handles and the MIY Collection logo etched on the blade, right beside EW’s own esteemed logo. What a super happy bunny I was when these arrived.
You can buy them now in the MIY Collection shop and in person at MIY Workshop classes. The shears are £40, the small scissors are £25. A snip when you think about the price per use of scissors that are going to last you a lifetime…..