Just a dog hanging out on the pool with his teddy bear
Just a dog driving a tractor on the motorway
A church that has gotten rid of its rotas
Being a [virtually] tee-total twentysomething
Just a dog hanging out on the pool with his teddy bear
Just a dog driving a tractor on the motorway
A church that has gotten rid of its rotas
Being a [virtually] tee-total twentysomething
This is Giovanna Fletcher’s second book after Billy and Me which I read last year. That one I described as enjoyable but a little sickly in places; this one was another easy read, but any sickliness was more bearable this time!
The book opens on Maddy walking down the aisle to marry Robert, but with doubts as their mutual best friend was the best man, Ben, and she still had confusion as to her feelings towards him. Flash back seventeen years and we come across the first time Maddy meets them both, and follow them on their lives up to that point. We have two narrators in this book, just Maddy and Ben, with occasional paragraphs thrown in from the grooms speech at the wedding.
Definitely like a warm hug in a book, easy reading, and you do feel like you get to know these people as you grow up with them. Chick lit, most definitely!
Curry – takeaway or a tesco ready meal
Chocolate – either in it’s pure form, or in icecream, or cheesecake, or any form of it really
Slippers – even when it’s warm my feet get cold
Blanket – is there ever a time where a blanket doesn’t make things more cosy?
TV – Friday nights are for switching the brain off after using it all week
So having posted about the trouble I had with the walkaway dress, I’ve had a tonne of help and advice, particularly from the lady who wrote the book herself, and am very grateful! When I next head down to my parents I’ll be giving it another go 🙂
Before I started the dress I made the Sleeveless Shell Top. It seemed a nice, simple way to start having not done any sewing in a few years, and no proper sewing in a very long time. In fact, this was the first time I ever made anything on my own from a pattern, and I’m pretty pleased with it.
The garment was made from six pieces of fabric: one for the front, two for the back, and then three pieces of facing. I’d heard the word “facing” a lot on the Sewing Bee and was a bit apprehensive, but it all came out really well, and the facing made it look lovely and professional. I even got the stitching done properly on the seam so that the facing was hidden – very chuffed.
I really like the fact too that it came with an optional dropped hem at the back, I much prefer a long top and so it was nice that I could choose to do that.
It’s been sat on my wardrobe for a couple of weeks now as I’ve been back at work, but now the sun’s out I think it might be time to give it a whirl. Just need to tidy up a few stray threads so that it can be worn in public and there we go.
If you’re looking to start sewing, this really is a good beginner piece while you get used to the patterns, and all the basic techniques that come with it.
I’m looking for anyone who’s tried to make the Walkaway Dress from this year’s Great British Sewing Bee book!
I’ve cut out my pieces, and sewn in all the darts etc, and sewn the skirt pieces together. That’s where my first issue lay
Anyway, on to the main issue at hand. I need to sew the Back Bodice, to the Skirt, but I’m having problems matching the waist.
Has anyone come across similar issues?
Does anyone know what I might have done wrong?
Is it something to do with the way I sewed the skirt pieces together?
Does anyone know what I can do to fix it?
I read on one forum that someone had adjusted their pattern “to make it work” but I’m way too beginner to know where to even start with that.
Any help or advice most gratefully received!
Thanks!
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With all the leaders debates now over, and the news thoroughly drenched in all the manifestos, statements, spats, all sorts that’s going on, I’ve been trying to find good sources of unbiased information to inform and help me to decide who to vote for next month. I wanted to look beyond all the leaflets that just tell me why I shouldn’t vote for the other parties, or tell me that only 2 parties have a chance in my constituency and to avoid the others, and I wanted to start from scratch in looking at what parties actually stand for.
Here are five of the resources that I have found most useful in doing this!
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Of course, it’s also important to look at what your local candidates are saying, while a lot of it may sound like bravado, they are the ones that will be representing you in government.
And don’t forget, there’s local council elections on 7th May too, this is where those who make decisions about the place you live get elected, and so it’s still really important to vote knowledgeably there too!