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Welcome to my Blog

I am a grandmother to 4 little girls. I blog about the things I make for them, review patterns, provide tutorials on how I've dealt with techniques or problems, which I hope may help others, and give links to the (mostly) free patterns I use. Every so often, I do a 'Best of..' post listing the best free patterns I've found under specific headings - babies, girls, boys etc. Enjoy the Blog!

Friday 31 December 2021

More about this blog

 I'm a grandma who loves making clothes for my grandchildren. That's all. This is not a commercial site, there is nothing you can buy on it. I do make some suggestions and provide links to other web sites where you can get free patterns. Some of these people do also have patterns for sale, but I neither endorse nor preach avoidance of these.  I also provide some simple patterns of my own. Soon there will be pictures of my favourite projects here to help you navigate to the best bits. In the meantime, use the tabs or the search box. There are specific tabs for making babies' and children's dresses, and things with legs (shorts, trousers, pants, leggings, PJs etc), plus a more general Make Baby /Child Clothes tab for other sorts of garments (e.g. skirts) and mixed (e.g. PJs with pants and a top). There is a list of UK on-line fabric supplers to help UK readers, now that so many physical shops are no longer with us, which I try to keep as up to date as possible. There are also tutorials on how to make children's clothing and accessories (dining room harness, playmat and gym, for example). I write up some reviews of free PDF patterns (and also provide some of my own). So enjoy the web site!