Sewing

I love to sew coats, I don’t know why, but I just do. Maybe that’s why I could convince myself to make a very last minute coat for a last minute trip to London. It all started three weeks ago when I went to a fabric fair. There I found…

Hello and welcome back to another blog post. Last weekend my boyfriend and I went to Retro sur mer. “Retro sur mer” is a retro festival at the Belgian coast (Wenduine) with artists who play golden oldies, a whole dike full of vintage cars, a vintage market and much more!…

Hello everyone and welcome to a new and also the last blog post of my series “Sewing through the 20th century”. Wow, I can hardly believe it, but we’ve already arrived at the last decade of the 20th century. It feels like it was just yesterday when I started this…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. We’re almost at the end of my series and today I’m going to talk about this 80s outfit that I’ve made. The eighties is the decade where my mom was a…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about this 1970s outfit that I’ve made. The Seventies is my favorite decade of the 20th century. Compared to the sixties where mini skirts were very…

(Nederlandse versie hieronder) A few weeks ago “The Great Bra Sewing Bee” contacted me and asked me if I would like to help them spreading the word about their online lingerie sewing event by rewatching some classes from last year and write about them. I was immediately very excited because…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost from my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about this 1960s dress that I’ve made. I really love the vibe of the sixties and the fashion of that decade. Skirts got shorter and groovier,…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost about my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about my 1950s dress that I’ve made. I was really looking forward for this decade, because I have collected a lot of 1950s (reproduction) patterns in…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) I’m very much a jeans kind of girl and I really wanted to make a new pair of jeans for the spring/summer, but I wasn’t looking forward for all the work that goes into making a jeans. I decided to begin anyway because I really wanted to…

(NEDERLANDSE VERSIE HIERONDER) Hello everyone and welcome to a new blogpost about my “Sewing through the 20th century” series. Today I’m going to talk about my 1940s outfit that I’ve made. Normally it had to be finished in April but the fabric didn’t arrive on time so because of that…