I'm often asked to recommend good books to help people on their sewing journey and my answer is always the same! Anything, more or less,...

I've recently become OBSESSED with Pierrot Clowns! A surprise to me as I generally find clowns unpleasant but a photograph of Hollywood...

On Friday last, I got on a train to the Big Smoke to go and see the exhibition at Dulwich Picture Gallery ~ Tirzah Garwood 'Beyond...

Without a doubt, my all time favourite muse is the woman once dubbed 'The Most Beautiful Girl in The World', the incomparable Hedy...

Spooky Season is in full swing and if you spend any time with me in my little cottage by the sea, you'll know at my core, I am a Gothic...

The perfect blouse for lounging in and relaxing on your chaise longue this Festive Season! The thing I love the most about sewing my own...

In celebration of Disney's Centenary which falls this year, I designed this FREE knitting pattern, the Minnie Beanie to mark the...

I recently had the incredible good fortune to while away an hour or two looking through an original copy of the Vogue Pattern Book from...

I've recently been dreaming of a trip to Venice, one of my favourite destinations in the whole world and thinking of the capsule wardrobe...

I've had a Dirndl obsession FOREVER and an enduring love for this Saint Laurent Rive Gauche blouse from the mid 1970's so for my June...

It has been on my mind for quite a while now that I need to change things up a bit! And the halfway point of the year always feels like...

I have recently embarked on a long term personal project exploring the work of the great Elsa Schiaparelli. I wanted to really get my...

For many years, Schiaparelli has been one of my favourite all time designers so when I heard there was to be a retrospective of her...

I think there's nothing prettier than an intricate cobweb seen on an Autumn morning bedecked with dew drops, caught like jewels on the...

Whatever your personal style, whatever your age, whatever the season, a beret is just about the most perfect thing you can put on your...

Sometimes you just need the pleasure of a simple sew for your Summer wardrobe and the Sweetie blouse is most definitely that! I had in...

On what would have been Marilyn Monroe's 96th birthday, on the 1st of June, I want to recommend some fabulous books about this icon of...

It's been in my mind to make a late 30's, early 40's style Shirt Dress for quite some time. I've come across them at vintage fairs and in...

I recently took some time off with the aim that I would read books in coffee shops and pretend to be on holiday. However, when I went to...

~Vintage Ski Style Inspiration for your Handmade Wardrobe~ The days and weeks after Xmas can be rather bleak and lacklustre so the idea...