Your ‘makes’ look so professional ! I wonder if you’d share some of the ways you get such a professional finish to your handmade garments on an upcoming RU-vid video please ? x
A lovely inspirational video. I’m new to sewing and enjoying the success I’m having with the Tilly and the Buttons patterns. I have made an Indigo top but can’t decide which fabric to use for the dress. I’ve just finished the Nell dress in a beautiful Rose and Hubble floral cotton poplin and I absolutely love it.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful autumn dresses, they are wonderfully inspirational. I only started sewing this year and I’m excited to make some autumn/ winter clothes. I too love changing the colours I wear with the seasons.
If you’re looking to make more jackets I think the Frankie jacket from Sew Over It would suit so many of these dresses really well - maybe in a nice corduroy. Thanks for another lovely video 😁🧵
Thanks so much! I love seeing other people's makes, as I struggle to visualise fabrics made up. I love William Morris fabrics and have some uncut, so you have inspired me to take the plunge
It’s interesting you say you’re an autumn, I could bet you’re a winter! 😍 All seasons can wear almost all colours - it all depends on the shade and tone 😊
Autumn is my favourite season too! You've chosen such a lovely selection of patterns, if only I had time to knit them all! My autumn knitting plan is to make the Over It Slipover by Lily Kate France ❤
I have not tried any of her patterns but I do enjoy the look of patterns by Rooney sewing. I am planning on making her Betty dress and I really like that she offers many different variations of this pattern. I think her style is a more wearable/ subtle cottage core style as well.
I know this is supposed to be about all the lovely knits, but can we talk about your lovely top! Did you make it? Please share the pattern and that fabric! ❤
Ah thank you so much! It’s actually a dress. The Anthea blouse by Anna Allen patterns and the fabric is from the Memory Made collection by Lewis and Irene that came out last year. I think it’s still in stock in a few places!
You might consider putting a liner on the head rest of your chair. Your hair color and the liner are looking very similar so it looks like you're Princess Lia from Star Wars
Love Autums so much and everything within the colors, the smell, the wooly things mmmm Also the Stella quilt, I think I might gonna make this in all brown tones with a little greens. Quenstion to you, are you also doing something in youre house for the Autumn? Thank you for youre lovely vlog again. Wooly greetings Cosy-cot
Me too! Autumn is the best ☺️ That sounds so lovely! It’ll be a perfect Stella quilt 😍 I think I probably will be but not sure what yet… I’ll be making a video with my plans soon though!
I enjoyed these, autumn and knitting go together so well, my favourite things! The stick season jumper has been on my list since it came out and I’m looking forward to the cardi version that’s on its way. I love the Stella quilt blanket, it’s so gorgeous and clever. Considering making that a year long project for next year.
@RachelBearn I have done a bit of simple sewing ages ago. I was also very slow knitter, so do you think it would be better to start with hat or socks? I don't want to give up if project would take me a while 😊
Hi, first time to your channel and I love it! We are into the same “hobbies”. In the video you show a dress from the back at time stamp 2:40. Could you tell me the name of this pattern? I’ve subscribed.
Thank you for your lovely comment! So great to have you here. I’m afraid that was just a picture from Pinterest so I don’t have a pattern for that one.
Love going to Goodwood Revival. Next year, I’m hoping to go to Twinwood. Looking forward to seeing all your looks. The hairdressing salons at Goodwood are great, I would suggest pre-booking. X
Thank you so much Rachel. I just found you recently and am loving your content so i just wanted to leave a couple of words here. I am a knitter and also trying out spinning. The more i watch your sewing videos, the more i really want to dive into trying out sewing myself. I am just still intimidated and really have no idea on how to start as i am an absolute beginner. It would be so awesome to be able to make my own dresses as i am living in dresses and skirts but really have troubles finding the ones i really want due to my really curvy figure. Do you have any tips on how to start and which are great ressources to learn everything?
Thank you for your lovely comment and I’m so excited that you are inspired to sew! I would really recommend Tilly and the Buttons patterns to start. They have lots of videos to help and have a beginner section on their website for all the beginner patterns. Also my friend Sally has a great channel on YT - Secret Life of a Seamstress and she did a whole series for beginner sewists recently. Another channel I recommend is Rosery Apparel, she also did a series for beginner sewists either tutorials to follow and all the tips you need. Hope that helps ❤️
This was delightful to watch 🤍 Thank you so much for including my patterns! For anyone interested in trying out my patterns, I have a 25% sale beginning at midnight.
As usual, your pattern recommendations are wonderful! I feel like my bra straps would show in a lot of these though 😅 As a busty, plus sized gal in her 40s, I can’t do anything with too much cleavage or back showing.
Thanks for the friendly video - you look gorgeous in the Mabel dresses! I want to make a full summer skirt in a black and white mini gingham (knocking off the trends I see in Anthropologie and Pinterest) and then a white top to go with in eyelet. Thanks again!
Good advice!!! I'd also recommend buying a vintage, all metal sewing machine from the 1950's, 1960's and early 1970's, before they started using nylon gears and then plastic parts. They sew like beasts through anything you throw at them and can be serviced and repaired at home, which saves a LOT of money. Here in the States I always recommend vintage, all-metal Kenmore machines (originally sold at Sears Department stores) but you can find lots of all-metal Japanese clones of Kenmores and Singers under various names. New Home machines were made by the company known as Janome today, so they are also good, vintage machines. Facebook Marketplace always has vintage machines listed, can usually be found in thrift/charity stores, and those sewing machine repair shops you mentioned probably have some, too.
It's a bit unconventional a suggestion (and I'm not a knitter!), but... Could you sew the yellow cardigan into a smaller size? Like, take in the side seams and bind them? Forgive me if that's a ridiculous idea 😅
I’ve thought the same! But really not sure how to do it without making it really bulky because you can’t really cut the knitted fabric. I might try and shrink it in the tumble dryer though…
At approximately 11:20 I saw on the bottom left of the screen LAMONA which is my first name. Because it is rare to see that, I wanted to ask you about it?
I agree, I think Tilly’s patterns are excellent. I have the Indigo + Lotta & two of her books. With the Lotta pattern I don’t think the photo on the front cover does it justice - looks frumpy but on the reverse the photo is so much better. Thank you for some great choices.😊
Hi Rachel , I came across your channel and really enjoyed it. Then I went down the rabbit hole………and I am now waiting for Lovely Opal 6ply sock wool from the Wooly Brew ……it’s wool I really enjoy using and it was in their yarn sale! Thank you for pointing me in that direction and I look forward to your future videos. Have a great day x
