Oh Sew Bright

 
 
 
HELLO PEOPLE OF THE INTERNET!
 
My name is Lotty. It's lovely to meet you.
 
Inspired by the many fashion forward and wonderful sewing and making blogs out there ( A Beautiful Mess , Tilly and the Buttons , Oonaballoona to name a mere handful! ) I am setting out to document my forays into sewing from the point of view of a HORRENDOUS procrastinator and rooky sewist.
 
So I've made a few bits and bobs as part of my Theatre Studies degree and am lucky enough to own an awesome Janome sewing machine (THIS one, it is fab) but patterns still give me a headache and I more often than not end up avoiding them until years later I come across some half cut out scraps in a drawer, OR phoning my mum at midnight to weep over the befuddling instructions, shouting nonsensically down the phone about selvedge's and basting (surely that is something you do to a TURKEY?!). More often than not I give up. Sigh at the oh-so-on-trend silk shirt that could have been, now in a pin strewn bundle on the floor, and reach for the wine.
 
BUT NO MORE! I think I have cracked it. That elusive problem all young sewists face ( at least those who do not want to look like an 1980s Granny OR like Cath Kidston threw up on them). And that is we want to make the kinds of clothes we ACTUALLY WEAR, the kinds of styles we can find on the high-street but minus the crappy sweaty-polyester fabrics and sweatshop labour.
 

 

Let's have less of this (1980s simplicity)...

 

And more of this! (By Hand London Anna Dress)

 
So that is my mission. To create a wearable handmade wardrobe with little to no skill, absolutely no patience, a tendency to procrastinate and the ever present temptation of cracking open the wine with my housemates... wish me luck!