If you’re into Marie Kondo, you will love this girl! Emily Lightly has built her business and a strong 19.5K+ IG community on helping first herself and in turn others on how to declutter their lives, make simple changes in maintaining a capsule wardrobe, to live a calmer, simpler life. As she quotes Courtney Carver,…
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To celebrate our growing community and the joy that is sewing and creating, we’ve decided to ask our favourite small businesses, makers and independent seamstresses to curate something out of 3 yards of FS linen of their choice. We welcome you to ‘FS Curated by you series’. Each has a story to tell about why…
Success Hacks: How to build a Lingerie Brand from scratch. Q&A with Chloe Hamblen, CEO of Lascivious
Sometime in 2008 an offer came through my agents to collaborate with an’ exciting and provocative lingerie brand- Lascivious, who’ were looking for illustrators’ to design a playing card that would’ form their infamous ‘Love’ deck of cards. Little did I know this would be the beginning of a friendship and an ongoing collaboration with the founder Chloe Hamblen…
There is a fascinating’ wave of new businesses flourishing’ within the’ industry catered for and around children and motherhood, from fabulous recipes on how to cook a dinner in 30 minutes, miniature ‘Mama’ pendants and ‘Mother’ sweatshirts to celebrate motherhood, great independent kids fashion brands and of course online shops that sell you everything you want your offspring…
Karina Kino and Tim featuring Karina Kino dress / Photo by Olga Jadan I came across’ Karino Kino, a Moscow based kids and women’s apparel brand, as it usually happens, through a friend who on her return from Moscow, proudly showed me her crisp’ white’ shirt inhabited by fun watercolour forest creatures. Clean cut,’ simple shirts with quirky drawings’ are…
We have been busy looking ahead planning new tutorials and articles to share with you, and yet reflections are a necessary part of growth, don’t you agree? So, we snuggled up to our friend google analytics to find out which tutorials, you, our readers thought the most interesting. Make sure you don’t miss out!’ Furthermore, we…
We are living in a completely different world to the days when I was a little girl, bear in mind I say this even though’ I’m in my early 30s. My children are more likely to know how to operate an ipad in fluent proficiency than how to fix a bike. This of course might be…
The colder weather is here (at least in London), and the thoughts of soon approaching festivities start to creep in. Halloween, Thanksgiving and the mother of all holidays Christmas is on the cards, thus’ gift list’ pressure will soon be on. To ease the stress, and help you prep early,’ we are going to show you some…
Charlotte Eve Norman is a young British set designer, who loves riding her bike, eats ice cream, and who has just’ run her first ultra marathon in the Race to the Stones. In life Charlotte is indeed a rare specimen of a sunny person,’ the kind of person you are drawn to simply to bathe in the…
I met Keely Hunter through a mutual friend going by the name of Mr Hat. A dear friend of mine, and my former lecturer who is now head of Art and Design at the University of Bedfordshire was looking for a consultant from the’ millinery industry to help him set up a new course structure and…
My first encounter with Rosy’s work happened about a year ago when I met the rainbow runner accessories designer Fred Butler. Fred and Rosy had worked together in unison on several of Fred’s collections and I was in awe of the fearless handmade revolution of accessories pushing boundaries I had stumbled across. I later found…
Our competition over at the Studio has come to an end and two fantastic winners have been chosen. This is our second competition and we were so pleased to’ see so’ many more tremendous’ and interesting entries this time round. Christine is our Grand Jury winner, we shall be knocking on her door to find out all about…
The Studio competition is in full swing, people! If you are a lover of sewing and linen, this competition is for you! Yes, absolutely you. Whether you are’ a beginner or a skilled seamstress, whether you are into re-enactment or current fashion designs, whether you are a professional upholsterer or like to make pillows for your…
Certain textures work well together’ in the exact same manner certain foods compliment each other. In the next two weeks we are going to have a look at an open weave fabric IL041 we carry at fabrics-store.com. By adding some textures to this fabric, you can create very simple and yet effective additions to your own…
Tassels are a little bit of fun sometimes. This is exactly why I have decided to pair them up with a very plain’ piece of’ black’ linen to make something very simple and perhaps that little bit special for the colder months to come. It is also a really easy way to introduce colour to either white/black/neutral fabric….
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