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I have had ‘Sparkly Jacket’ on my Make Nine list since the beginning of 2020. It didn’t happen in that first year so in 2021 it just had to come into being. Rarely do the fabric and the pattern for a project come together at the same time, and in this case the fabric came first and it took me...

There’s a story with this jumper… but hey, there’s a story with most makes isn’t there?! The story comes at the end mind, so you’ll have to read all the way through! This fabric is SUPER soft and snuggly. I had to make a jumper out of it straight away. We have it in an antique pink as well as...

We are on the hunt for some keen sewists to join our brand new Backstitch Ambassadors team! Do you live, sleep, breathe all things sewing? And like to take nice photos of your makes for social media? Then we would LOVE to hear from you. At the moment we are looking for people to build our dressmaking team.  Our chosen...

My smaller boy left primary school in July… end of an era for both him and I!  Obviously, the kids have not had all the end of term celebrations that they would normally, but the prom (or end of term disco as I prefer to call it) was organised by parents and although the date was bumped once, we did...