The Daily Stitch

Last Autumn, I decided I wanted to make DSD, who was five a the time, a quilt. When I saw Heather Ross’s Far Far Away II I thought it would be absolutely perfect. I was just discovering fabric designers and hadn’t ever really seen fabric like this, both whimsical and modern. I went for girly, […]

This sundress was made out of an old curtain from my bedroom when I was a kid! When I was home last Thanksgiving rooting around in my mum’s chest of drawers in the basement for old seventies patterns (which she’d thrown out, for shame!) I came across it and thought I could ‘upcycle’ it into […]

I made this dress last summer but didn’t actually finish it until recently. The fabric is from John Lewis and we picked the print because it looked like something out of the Mini Boden catalogue but I purchased it before I really started following fabric designers so of course I don’t actually know who designed […]

This raspberry-coloured jumper dress is the most substantial knitting project I’ve made. This pattern is the Girl’s cap sleeved spring top by Shellee Floyd, found on Ravelry.     I won’t share the pattern here because it is $5, but if you do get the pattern and you‚Äôd like to try turning it into a […]

We decided not to go away for the bank holiday weekend because we have so much going on in the next few weeks/months (including, ahem, a wedding!) and the time off has been absolutely brilliant for sewing and knitting projects. Today, I finally tackled Maddie’s flower girl handbag. I had it in my head that […]

I discovered Elsie Marley’s Kids Clothes Week Challenge and decided to take part! I haven’t participated in a sew-a-long since I started this blog and I thought it would be fun. For my first project of the week, I decided to try to make a kid-size Sorbetto for my six-year-old stepdaughter. However, I decided to […]

For my second (finished) project for KCWC, I present the Strawberry Skirt! I made this using Dana from Made’s Simple Skirt tutorial. I’ve wanted to try this ever since I read a post she wrote a post about sewing one of these in 12 minutes. I thought (as I often do reading Dana’s blog), that […]