Ms1940McCall

January is sure flying by!  I've decided to reschedule the Sew Grateful Week to the first full week in February to give us all some mor...

I hope you all had a lovely time ringing in the New Year!  I can't believe it's now officially 2012!! I wanted to share some of t...

Things are about to get really busy around here!  We move flats next week! NEXT WEEK? Can you believe it?  Time has really flown by!  I set ...

Oh boy! This week has been so much fun.  My sister is in town and we've been checking out lots of cool places in Scotland.  But boy am I...

This week's theme over at the Sew Weekly  is refashioning--something I've never really done!  The idea is to take something in your ...

After seeing Peter's post on Unfinished Objeects (UFO's)...I figured this would be the perfect time to come clean about a few UFOs I...

Happy New Year everyone!  Sorry I have been silent these past few weeks.  I am happy to say that we are settling into our lovely new flat in...

There's so much exciting inspiration in the blogosphere lately--it must be the start of September but everyone seems to be doing a lot o...

I've been doing a lot of planning for my spring and summer wardrobe and I've decided on the main colors for my sewing.  Most of the ...

My sewing retreat is coming to a close.  For my birthday I treated myself to the one thing I never have enough of: time.  Time to spend doin...

It's my birthday (yippeeeee)!!  In celebration, I'm taking three days off of work and having a sewing retreat.  David volunteered to...

Since I've just started sewing, I've been wanting to take a sewing course.  At first I didn't find anything in the UK but as I s...

One of my favorite sewing books (ok, my only sewing book) "The Complete Book of Sewing" by Constance Talbot published in 1943 has ...

Back when I was in NYC, I was very eager and cut out fabric for a bunch of different patterns.  Now that I have actually started sewing, I l...

I've managed to accumulate lots of great vintage patterns that I absolutely adore.  One of the most recent additions is this fabulous Ho...

hmmm...I have lots of projects lined up and almost ready to go, one of which is a dress pattern from the 1930's (DuBarry 1494B).   I wan...