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I made it! I kept my pledge wearing at least a me-made garment a week over may. And I liked it so much that I outdid! 😉 In the end…

This post is part of the first Dress Up Party by Sara Lawson, the sewing blogger from Chicago behind sewsweetness.com. Every weekday from May 4th to May 29th you can…

Last Saturday I was lucky enough to join the very first Italian Sewing Meet-up with other 29 sewing bloggers and lovers. It was, as you can imagine, an amazing day…

Spring is coming and so this will be my last winter sewing project for sure. I can’t wait to sew cotton and light-weight fabrics. Anyway, this panelled mini skirt come…

I’ve always sewed in a “traditional” way so far. I mean with pattern, tacking, a lot of patience but great final satisfactions! Some projects have really put my patience to…

The choice of the fabric is the step I most enjoy in making a dress! Looking at, touching and caressing fabrics is always something magic. Generally it’s love at first…

With the coming of a new year, and above all with the arrival of my new overlocking machine, I decided it was no longer the case to carry around the…

This is the pair of shorts I made over the basic dressmaking evening classes I was attending at AFOL Moda in Milan until the middle of December. The shorts have…

In two days a new year will start and I feel like this last year has flown by. Probably because the 2014 has been full of news, discoveries and new…

Did you survive the Christmas lunches and dinners? Yes, I did! But above all I survived the crazy days that preceded my handmade Christmas. Oh yes, that because, for the…