My name is Sue and I love sewing and here’s my lockdown diary! My parents bought me my first sewing machine when I was 15, so that was about 45 years ago now! In my twenties I remember making a
“Time to go back in time” I’ve always sewed! My mum sewed and taught me as a small girl to make clothes for my dolls and then myself. By 16 I was making curtains for ‘Barratt Homes’ show homes on
‘Learning in Lockdown’ I suppose you could say this all started because I felt I had “completed” lockdown very quickly. I was done with complaining about not getting the flour I so desperately needed in the shops, even though up
‘Not that pattern again!’ Dress making to me has given me a platform for self-expression. Before I began sewing I lived predominantly in the uniform of jeans and t-shirt. Wearing a dress felt like I was dressing up, only used
Can it really be that we’ve been in lockdown for 6 weeks now and not months? I can’t be the only one who feels like this is the new normal and has gotten rather used to sleeping in, doing some
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