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Announcement of the winner of the Fairelith top PDF pattern by Blank Slate Patterns
The winner of the BSP Fairelith PDF pattern!

The winner of the BSP Fairelith PDF pattern!

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Happy Saturday to all you lovely people! Yesterday night the giveaway for the PDF pattern of the Fairelith top by Blank Slate Patterns closed, so here I am to finally announce who won! Watch the clip below to see who’s the lucky winner. Drum roll….. Congratulations! I’ll contact the winner today. Think this pattern will really suit her! For all of you who weren’t that lucky today, the Fairelith top pattern is always available in the Blank Slate Patterns webshop. Talk to you soon! Enjoy your weekend!

Fairelith top from Blank Slate Patterns sewn by Sewingridd
Fairelith Top – Happy Birthday Giveaway

Fairelith Top – Happy Birthday Giveaway

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Hip Hip, hooray! Happy birthday! And no, not to me this time, but for my blog! Today it’s exactly one year ago that I launched this blog, so let’s celebrate! With a new post of course, but also with a real giveaway. So continue on reading! At a birthday party, you wear a nice festive outfit of course. So especially for this occasion I sewed one up! I chose to make the Fairelith top by Blank Slate Patterns. A pattern that I had never used, but had caught my attention before. And now the right moment, fabric and pattern coincided. Fairelith Because a basic does not always have to be…

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Boring zipper repair is actually quite cool and easy - Blog by Sewingridd
Coat upcycling

Coat upcycling

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Today no new garment, no flashy pictures, but a boring upcycle on the blog! Still I wanted to share this with you, with regards to my growing sustainability and fashion consciousness. What did I do? I installed a new zipper in my winter coat. Not the easiest or most fun thing to do… So why don’t go out and buy a new coat? Mostly, this is my favourite coat (I also have another ‘’car’’ winter jacket). But this one is really warm, feels nice, and is waterproof. Despite it being with me for a number of autumns and winters already, it really was too good still to say goodbye to….

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Granny's tips on setting in sleeves - basic rules that always apply. Tutorial by Sewingridd
Tutorial – How to set in sleeves

Tutorial – How to set in sleeves

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My grandma used to be a professional seamstress. She’s always very enthusiastic when I show my own creations. And when we talk she often tells sewing tales of her own. Nowadays she unfortunately can’t see well enough anymore to thread a needle, but she still has the knowledge! So one day she was helping me with the fit of a garment and figured the sleeve was the problem. That day my grandma taught me some basic rules for setting in sleeves. I soaked these up, wrote them down and carved these into my brain. From that day on when I’m setting in sleeves, I use my grandma’s tips. Because they’re…

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Summit Peak Hoodie sewn by Sewingridd
Structured – Summit Peak Hoodie

Structured – Summit Peak Hoodie

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Happy Sew Year! – 2018 recap

Happy Sew Year! – 2018 recap

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It’s the end of the year! (Obviously, haha) That can only mean one thing: time for lists and looking back. 2018 was the year for me to start a blog. Although I’m not always posting regularly, and not solely post on my own blog, I do really enjoy it. I hope you do too! Because I love overviews I’ve made a list of the items I’ve created this year. To also be able to draw a lesson here, I tried to list the top 5 items I’ve worn most. Hoping this will help me to be able to decide on forehand what I’ll make and eventually actually wear! Happy new…

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Refashioned cardigan by Sewingridd - The refashioners 2018
My contribution to The Refashioners 2018

My contribution to The Refashioners 2018

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Hi there! This year I’m joining The Refashioners 2018 community challenge! This is an online challenge hosted by Makery. We’re challenged to refashion unloved or thrifted garments into something new, to show and experience ”how cool, creative and ecologically and ethically sound refashioning old garments actually is!” I could not let that opportunity slip (especially after last week’s blog;))! I started out with this pink velvet knitted cardigan I had in my closet. I bought it at the end of last winter’s season. I don’t really know why I bought it, but probably just because it was super soft, one of my favorite colors and only €5, oops… It was…

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Sewingridd telling about her journey towards a more slow fashion lifestyle
Slow Fashion October

Slow Fashion October

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It’s the fourth year already Karen Templer is hosting Slow Fashion October. We take a month to make up our minds about our closets, style and shopping behavior. Although I’m not actively participating in #slowfashionoctober, it still made me think and I felt like I needed to share some thoughts. I hope to inspire you with them, but if you completely disagree, you’re welcome to tell me why. (Small disclaimer before we start: first off, I’m in no shape or form an expert in slow fashion and certainly not a great role model. I found the subject very interesting and thought I would take you guys along for the ride…

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Simplicity 1062 sewn by Sewingridd
Jungleprint Batwing Tee

Jungleprint Batwing Tee

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Is it just me, or are your fabric stashes also growing so big that you cannot clearly oversee it all? For that reason I was organizing my fabric stash a while ago, when I bumped into this jungle print tricot. I had bought the fabric recently at www.stoffenbestellen.nl. My expectation was it to be black/white or brown, but in reality it appeared to be more greenish. That’s why I did not really know what to do with it, until seeing it next to this army green fabric while cleaning. This solid tricot I actually bought to make a T-shirt for my boyfriend, but now I first used it for something…

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Freshly rereleased Tula dress pattern by Laela Jeyne Patterns, sewn by Sewingridd
Tula dress tunic

Tula dress tunic

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Today’s blog features a super freshly updated pattern! Although the weather is significantly colder already than in summer time, I made something sleeveless. It’s the Tula dress pattern by Laela Jeyne Patterns which was re-released this week. Huh, but your creation is somewhat short to be called a dress, right!? That’s true, because I made the tunic version. One of the things that’s nice about this pattern is that it looks like a nice and simple sleeveless A-line dress or tunic, but you have plenty of style options! And by plenty, I mean plenty… You can tweak this basic pattern completely to your likings. There’s a dress or tunic length;…

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