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Make Of The Month; Donna

Make Of The Month; Donna

Welcome to the new monthly blog segment "Make of the Month".

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Harriet’s Ironing Board Cover

Harriet’s Ironing Board Cover

Which is why, for this month I decided to go a little off-piste and make a pretty ironing board cover… I think it was the very Cath Kidston-esque fabric that did it!

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Learning to Sew with Slippery Fabrics

Learning to Sew with Slippery Fabrics

Quilting weight cottons are such a fantastic place to start out dressmaking, and I still get sucked in by the gorgeous array of prints that they come in. But fairly quickly you start to see what else is out there and that sticking to this type of fabric can actually become kind of restrictive.

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