Alice Woodcock

A few weeks ago we had an exciting delivery... we are now stockists of Merchant and Mills sewing patterns. If you have anything to do with sewing in the UK you can't have missed Merchant and Mills and their delicious range of luxury haberdashery (we've got their lovely pins here), but did you know they have an excellent selection of...

These beautiful new dressmaking cottons that have just arrived from France from design house Atelier Brunette are a sight for sore eyes.  Six prints in elegant tones and hugely wearable prints. The base cloth is a cotton cambric, which is very similar to lawn.  Cambric is classified as slightly heavier than lawn, a closely woven cotton with a very slight...

Do you love fabric and sewing? Do you enjoy helping people and chatting to the public? We have an opening at our Burwash Manor shop for a weekend Retail Assistant... Working from our shop just outside Cambridge we need a bright and sociable person to work between 6 and 20 hours per week including at least one weekend day. Work...

I've been doing a stack more dressmaking since the shop opened.  It's all the dressmaking fabric we've been getting in... gone and got me all inspired.  That, and the fact that now I am the face of Backstitch not just the voice I need to look vaguely presentable each day... and 7 years of working from home has taken it's...