Now onto introducing more of our lovely Raffle Prize Sponsors!! Without further a do!

By Hand London – 3 PDF’s of winner’s choice . Becca has made the wonderful Anna Dress using African Wax Print and one of these days i will be brave enough to take on the Anna too but for some reason i haven’t got round to it which is daft!

The Lovely Laura of Cotton Reel Studio has kindly donated £30 voucher plus bag of haberdashery items! Laura has a fantastic online shop with a vast array of gorgeous fabrics, i tell you its hard to resist! Thank you Laura for your continued support!

Nina Lee – I’ve got the ever so beautiful Kew Dress on my to do list but Becca had been pattern testing her latest Pattern the Mayfair Dress which is also just as as beautiful! Nina has kindly donated to the Raffle One Sewing Paper Pattern of winner’s choice! Also there is an array of new summer patterns too!

Sew Over It – 5 pdf’s of the winner’s choice. Say what?! That’s a fabulous prize indeed as there is a lovely array of sewing patterns available with a nice vintage twist! Thank you for your continued support!

Sewisfaction – £30 voucher for winner plus a cheeky 10% discount for attendees only!

I’ve made The Franki Top from Wearable Studios using a beautiful floral viscose from Sheona but unfortunately its no longer available but her fabrics are spot on and speedy delivery too! Thank you Sheona for your continued support!

So here is the 2nd lot of thank you so much to our lovely Raffle prize Sponsors! You are all awesome!

Keep your eyes on our feeds as we will be posting more details of the (many more) other sponsors of our amazing raffle!

Sally & Becca xx

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As promised, Becca and I have been working hard behind the scenes for Sew Up North on June 24th 2017.  Just over 1 month away now!!! Arrgghhhh!

Now next on our list of appreciation of our sponsors is the Lovely Laura of Cotton Reel Studio!

She has promised us an exclusive  20% discount code for those attending. Yes….You heard right! So you best RSVP! Not forgetting a £30 Voucher too!

If you haven’t come across Cotton Reel Studio before, I highly recommend having a good look around with your favourite brew in hand together with your Paypal details LOL!

They stock my favourite Pattern Designers – Deer and Doe, Megan Nielsen, Tilly and the Buttons, Evielaluve just to name a few! Also not forgetting the beautiful fabrics that Laura has online too as I’ve received some lovely Bird Print Chambray for my upcoming Simplicity Project and it’s just fantastic quality and who doesn’t like a cute print?!

So keep your eyes peeled for my new Project

  Although they are an online business, don’t think that means they aren’t willing to answer any questions you might have about their products. Also Laura will be attending too

So, if you don’t find everything on your shopping list in Leeds, you’ll be able to get hold of it online.

Thank you Laura, you are awesome!

See you in June? Click here to RSVP

Sal xx

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When Jennifer put the call out for Testers for her new Cardi pattern, who wouldn’t say no?!

I’ve recently made the Bronte Top and it fit was really good and her instructions are pretty easy to follow so i thought i’d take myself out of my comfort zone and make my 1st ever Cardigan!

Thankfully i had won a £20 voucher from @cottonreelstudio, perfect timing! So i decided to go for the Navy and Black Ponte Roma for a bit of colour blocking and i wanted the cardi to have a bit of structure to it

There is 2 versions to this cardigan, if you wanted a vintage vibe there is a cropped version or longline length that i opted for.

The fab thing about Jennifer’s patterns is that she has set the pattern pieces really well to print so instead of wasting paper you only need to print the pages you need for whichever version you are sewing! Nothing worse than printing out a 50 odd page pattern and to only use 40 of them…. must be the ‘Yorkshire’ in me!

Oh look my Fondant fancies are making an appearance again! Hahahaha!

 Here’s a pic of the Neckband going in, it’s a lot easier than you think!

Now i won’t lie…. this pattern is for the absolute beginner! You will need to have some experience working with knits as it can be a tricky when you are inserting the saddle sleeves but it is a very interesting design feature!

Here’s my tester version all sewn up!

There is an option for buttons also but for my version i quite like my cardi’s open and tend not to fasten them so didn’t want to fath around for no reason!

So with skipping that step i managed to get this sewn up in a day from sticking the pages to sewing up the cardi so not bad going to say it’s my 1st cardi! Yay!

For my next version, I’m thinking for going for a bit lighter jersey as the Ponte is quite thick and doesn’t drape much because of it plus it’s coming to Spring/Summer which would be a fab cover up! Just need decide if i want to colour block or not….hmmmmm!

The Pattern is now officially realised over at Jennifer’s Shop so grab your copy now and get sewing up some yummy cardis’!

Sal

xx

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