A gape dart is a small dart used on openings like necklines and armholes to make sure your garment fits close to your body.

What symbols should you use, and which are essential?

This blog post goes with my 'sewing jersey & knits' tutorial, so you can easily reference all of the stitches I've demonstrated. If you've not taken a look at the tutorial yet, why not have a look after you've read this post. To sew a perfectly professional jersey garment you'll need an overlocker and a coverstitch machine. However, most home sewers won't have both of these machines, so I'll show some easy alternatives you can sew on any basic sewing machine. The photo's in t

I'll show you how to insert an invisible zip, step by step. I'll break it down in to 10 stages, to make it as easy as possible.

If you're fed up of altering commercial patterns to fit, or you can't find the design you want, chances are you're thinking about drafting your own patterns.

The first step of any dressmaking project is taking your body measurements. Most of these measurements are very easy to take yourself...

I've broken down the many types of lace that you can buy by the metre in to categories, and will attempt to tell you a little bit more......

A pattern block is a basic shape that fits perfectly; it has no seam or hem allowance, and no design details. It’s a starting “block”.

Slow fashion is the opposite to 'fast fashion'. And the ultimate in slow fashion is creating your own clothes.

When you undertake a dressmaking project with your self drafted pattern, the biggest difference to working with a bought pattern is they don't come with instructions!

My love of dressmaking, and now over 30 years experience in the fashion industry, along with finally finding a use of my love of video editing meant the next natural step was.....