My most recent work - a set of five vehicle pennants (aka flags). This was a private commission for an officer of the Grenadier Guards ...

'What have we done?' - the question repeatedly asked by Mary Portas in her Channel 4 series 'Mary's Bottom Line'.  I wat...

Turning myself into a complete liar, after my last 'won't be around for a while' post.... Anybody who has read any of the be...

I may not be writing that much on this blog for the next few weeks... I'm in the manic run up to the re-enactor's market now (TORM...

I went to Hat Works (the hat museum in Stockport) for the first time yesterday, for college (an extra during half term). It's a wonder...

A gown made in 1911 by Madame Paquin, the Parisian couturier, is currently on display at the Bowes Museum in County Durham. It's made in...

...has been a strange, disjointed sort of week. I started working, properly, late this year, on account of catching flu (again - or at lea...

I just realised that I never posted about my second hatmaking brief. That's very bad of me, and I will slap myself on the hand, becaus...

Oh dear, it's been THAT long since I posted! Oops - clearly my time has been occupied with the making of stuff, and with college (and ...

We've had them returned now, athough we haven't got the grades yet (yikes!). So I've now had time to take some decent photos o...

For a long time now, I've been interested in the stories of the unsung, and largely ignored men who took part in the most dangerous ship...

...is now finished and in for marking.  I don't have any pictures of it completed yet, because I managed to make the deadline for the co...

My communications may be slightly off for the next few days / weeks.  I may be less likely than I usually am to pick up the phone or answe...

A piece I delivered this week - already to be seen on my facebook page -  a blue and white livery coat with a falcon and fetterlock back bad...

Last week at college I blocked my first ever felt brim - I forgot to take photos then, so here are a couple now... This one was taken a...

This post has absolutely nothing to do with sewing, or with my work. When winter is on us, and the two old trees outside my sewing room w...

I've been meaning to do this for ages , but time, time, time... Anyway, I have finally set up a facebook page (or pages) for my work. ...

I've had a bit of a stange week, since last Friday...  highs and lows... Firstly, good news - the scary health stuff is now over - my ...

I've not been working full strength for the last month or so, because of some moderately scary 'health stuff'.  But I'm gett...

As I recently said, I've been given a place on the HNC Millinery course at Leeds College of Art.  (Yay!) I thought I'd share the po...