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Welcome to my blog. I mainly post about my sewing projects, as Iā€™m building a colourful and comfortable everyday wardrobe suitable for a working mum of primary school children. I really love African wax fabric, so that features heavily. I also occassionally post about family life in Edinburgh and travel. Hope you have a nice stay!

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LB Pullover - Hudson Loungeset

LB Pullover - Hudson Loungeset

First makes of the year is this joggy bottom, sweatshirt combo consisting of an LB Pullover and sone more Hudsons. Both are tried and tested patterns for me. Much as I love a nice dress, more often than not I go back to my hudsons for comfort. So when I saw these fabrics, I knew they would come together well

Patterns: Paper Theory LB Pullover, true bias Hudson pants

Fabrics: the jumper and the accents on the bottoms are a Minerva Exclusive French Terry. Really like this, the print quality is fab and it has a bit more stretch than some other French Terry I've worked with, so for once the neckband is looking decent. The rest of the hudsons is a core range sweatshirting. It's a shame the blues don't match, but hey ho

Sizes: 16 for both 

Adjustments: full seat on the hudsons, not on the pullover. This is my third pair of hudsons and for sone reason these are a bit too long. Also some not ideal bunching round the front, I think I made the elastic too loose. But never mind, it's joggy bottoms, I'm not gonna win any elegance points anyway, but I can still have fun colours as I'm lounging!

Franca wears a sweatshirt in a plant print in blue, mustard, pink and green, and electric blue sweatpants
Friday Pattern Company Ilford jacket

Friday Pattern Company Ilford jacket

My 2022 Makes

My 2022 Makes