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I made view A of the simplicity dress. The sleeve construction was really interesting- I really like the yellow monstrosity 😊. Mine was a red floral print though.

Love the new fabrics, especially the one with the monkeys. I bought that one in my favourite fabric shop in Palma Majorca whilst I was on holiday.

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Great blog Rachel. I lost my sewjo a year ago when my husband died. I have now come back to watching you and you are giving me the will to sew again ❤️ Thank you.

Love love love your Thea’s, I would like to make a floral pair with a cotton I bought from your destash. Just need to find some time!! Love your Seamwork blouse. An inspiration as always. Have a lovely week ❤

The blouse is a wonderful colour on you & the trousers look amazing - great match. So many animal prints, look forward to seeing which ones you make first. Love you saying you hadn’t bought much fabric 😂🤣😂

That scalloped edge lace reminded me so much of my bridesmaids. Pale blue satin dresses with hooded capes over made of lace with scalloped edges. So 60s

Love your Vogue top. It looks like it can be dressed up or down. Beautiful ❤

Thanks for sharing Rachel, it was lovely to catch up. So excited to see what you make with that beautiful lace and well done on persevering with your crochet. 🧶🌈🍓💙

Everything is beautiful. I love your blouse.

beautiful makes, love both tops Kx

Your cap sleeve version of the Donny shirt is the best Donny blouse I have seen. It becomes pretty rather than ordinary.

Your Thea's and the Vogue top look so beautiful together! And the top is indeed so unique. Super curious about your next goth dress 🖤

Great trousers & top 😍Really looking forward to seeing that goth dress your planning

I am seeing your vision with the goth dress, and it's going to be fabulous!!!! Good luck!! Lynne 🤩😍

Love the outfit! The top especially! Beautiful on you too!

Hi, just watching your vlog - what a great selection of fabrics! When i saw the lacy voile and you mentioned big sleeves i thought you could make the body of the shirt in a fine cotton lawn and then use the lace for the dramatic sleeves a la Sian of kittenish behaviour. Just a suggestion. Happy stitching! Caroline

All the makes were great, look forward to the matching skirt. Lovely to see you back, life does happen ♥

Love your makes, and you look fabulous! 😊😎. I think I have that same vintage Vogue pattern!

Love the Thea’s, might give them a go seeing as I’ve got the pattern!!!! 🐾🐾

So good to see you again! Lovely clothes and I can really see the top that you're wearing in lots of colors under jackets or cardigans or whatever.

Loved your vlog, as always🥰 Get your skirt done and you have your coord set made up😉 Wishing you a wonderful week😊

I love your Thea’s Rachel. I think we have a few fabrics the same 😅

Terrific trousers! I’m not brave enough to wear patterned pants but they look great on you. As you were showing all the animal prints (😍) I was imagining them all in hanging in your closet- open the door and welcome to Rachel’s Zoo! 😁. Thanks for sharing, can’t wait to see final garments.

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Could you make Layla a little sleeveless dress from the leftover fabric from your trousers? Maybe something sleeveless, she could then also wear it with a tshirt and leggings underneath. Does Martin ever roll his eyes and say "more fabric?!" ? I try not to buy more as i have too much now, but my husband questions it and just shakes his head. I'm in the slow process of organizing my fabrics and i know some will be donated to a special charity in the spring. You have some lovely fabrics, i love the postcard fabric, so unique.

Lovely catch up honey. Those Theas are truly INCREDIBLE! Love your impromptu makes too - they always end up being gorge! xxx

You look amazing your hair colour and the blue top makes your eyes pop. Especially noticed it on your northern sewl video

Lovely catch up! I had to watch in 2 parts as needed to dry my hair. 😆Your hair looks lovely today. Blue is certainly your colour- mine too. Thank you 😊

Lovely vlog, Rachel. Really like the Vogue pattern. It looks much more modern in the sleeveless version. I can recommend a book with the dubious title of “Stitch’n’Bitch: The Happy Hooker” by Debbie Stoller for when you are ready to build on your crochet knowledge. It’s US based and as another person has commented, you always need to check patterns to make sure you know what is required, but the instructions are so clearly written in this book, it’s well worth it. I'm less sure about the sizing of the patterns in it as I made one which turned out huge even with the right tension but I often use it as a reference guide.

So many gorgeous fabrics. I LOVE the top you are wearing 😍

Could you use the Thea remnant to do a visible bias bound finish on a plain top, that would tie in with the trousers without being too full on?

LOVE LOVE LOVE your Vogue top and Thea trousers. They look fantastic on you. Somehow or other I always manage to miss the fabric destash 🙄. Anyway have missed the vlogs and it’s nice to have you back again. 😃

Love the tops, the Vogue and the Madhu. And good to hear you've mastered crochet, like you I had a few goes before I got it but once you are there it's not difficult to try other things as someone else said. Enjoy

Love the top. I use the Fibre Mood Sky top which is very similar(made a couple of versions) but do like the cap sleeve effect of the Vogue one. Hook and bar on Thea waistband is good too. Very timely for me as I am literally just finishing the Sew House Seven Oxbow pants and not really wanting to do a buttonhole on the waistband ( they never go well for me 😮). Voile top is fab. Happy Sewing 😊. Lynne

Great vlog again. Thank you Rachel - if only I could get my own sewing projects going! Maybe this week.😃

I have a question how long have you had your Phaff machine? I need a new one

That color looks so pretty on you❤

You've shown us so many gorgeous things. And that Art Deco fabric ...oh my!❤

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I need to destash but I am having problems letting go. Does it get easier?

So, we are just leaving the basting stitches in, correct? I like your method. Most tutorials have you zigzag TWICE around the whole circle, but it is very tedious to try to zigzag while also stretching the elastic, and it ends up with too much thread everywhere. I am going try basting foldover elastic on one side, and then cover-stitching it from the front, because I found it very stressful to stretch the FOE and try to keep the raw edge tucked into the wee fold at the same time. Thanks for the nice lesson.

Actually I like your hair today. The little bit of curl is pretty.

I love those trousers and that fabric is gorgeous. The top you have made to go with it is right in fashion now.

Love the platinum blonde hair-looks lovely -and goes perfectly with all of those fabulous animal prints! You are my inspiration! ❤ can’t wait to see goth dress!

I love your top. The color really works with your lipstick.

I really love the tip for the trouser hook and bar closure.

Your Thea’s are so cute! The top is fantastic, too. The color is perfect on you.

Ohhhhh how about a waistcoat with that leftover fabric from your Thea’s? Something like the Trish Newbury Vienna vest? You could colour block it if you couldn’t squeeze all of it out of what you have as it has side panels and princess seams. 🥰

One of the lovely things about crochet is that once you’ve got the hang of the basics, it’s really just variations of the same. Just make sure you know if a pattern is written in UK or US terms because of course you guys couldn’t agree on those 😉 Have fun!