Oil and Thread

I have sewn all of the three patch rows into nine patch blocks - nine of them in total.  The blocks are all basically the same with a red v...

I have decided to start my sewing year with a quilt.  I've spent quite a while thinking about what I want to do with fabrics I already h...

This is a dress I made around the end of 2014 in readiness for Christmas of that year.  I never got around to blogging about at the time....

Here are the finished boxers.  I added the buttonholes using my new toy a Griest #1 template buttonholer for low shank machines (this means...

I have had this pink and blue striped cotton shirting for months.  I picked it up cheaply on eBay.  I washed it to preshrink it ages ago and...

It's buttonhole time for the Negroni shirt.  I had a grim determination to finish the project on the 201K and I've never used the...

Today has been all about making the collar for my Negroni shirt.  I am echoing the pocket flaps with a contrasting under collar. I ...