handmade by mary emmens
I’ve written recently about the Goodnight Sweetheart pyjama pattern; sadly Leah is now too big for this pattern and I don’t have the skills to grade it up for her so I had to find a new pattern. I did … Read More »
I’m still playing a bit of catch up on things made but not shared. Back in June Bethan asked if I could make her a skirt, we had a rummage in my stash to see what cuts of fabric we … Read More »
I asked my sister in law what my niece might like for her 5th birthday and the response was pyjamas. Of course I wasn’t about to go shopping for pyjama’s when I can make them so I went shopping for … Read More »
Over four years ago I made an Easy Linen Shirt for Mathias: It was too big on him at the time but he has worn it extremely frequently over the last year. But he’s grown so I thought it about time … Read More »
Since last week I’ve made a few more foxes: And I also bought a pattern for the 3rd week of May is for Makers (click on the pattern info below to take you to the pattern): I whipped up a … Read More »
After the success of my first knit top I bought 1.5 metres of some light jersey to make another scoop neck top: I was pleased with my attempt at matching the stripes on the side seams: I’m pretty sure that … Read More »
Once upon a time (Dec 2014) Tobit bought me the Sewing with Knits Craftsy Class; I watched some of the classes and thought a lot. In September (2015) I bought some knit fabric: I also bought an overlocker, despite the … Read More »
A few years ago (2011) I went to the Festival of Quilts for the first time with Emily (blog post here), I bought these 1/2 metre cuts of fabric: They are flannels from Boden, I’m pretty sure they were being sold by … Read More »
A couple of years ago at a South West Stitchers meet up, Will from Abakhan brought a box of scraps/offcuts etc and I picked up 2 largish pieces of fleece from it. Initially I thought I could use them for … Read More »
On my 3rd quarter finish along list were pyjama shorts for my boy. A couple of weeks ago I realised that he didn’t have many pairs of everyday shorts and if summer turns up we might need more. So I printed … Read More »