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Pintucks and pleats.

I’ve been away from the blog recently on account of a Dreaded Lurgy, so I haven’t had a great deal to show you. Fortunately I have managed to drag myself out of my sick bed *cough* for long enough to make this:

which is eventually going to be the front of a shirt, in organic cotton [...]

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New Bishopston Fabrics!

Yes, it’s October, and the new Bishopston swatches have just arrived!
The most exciting thing about this is that they’ve just introduced a new fabric weight - a Fair Trade cotton lawn! They’re the swatches on the left - the colours mostly match the regular cottons, but the fabric is a much lighter weight.
The new cotton [...]

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Simplicity 2927 - black and grey

Here is incarnation number two of Simplicity 2927, this time in black and grey. This one’s for Claire, (no, not me!) who left me a comment when she saw the one I’d made for myself.
It’s made using 100% organic cotton, from Bishopston Trading. I couldn’t find any grey, so I dyed a piece myself. I [...]

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