Sew Ruthie Style

I bought the fabric for this little top on Monday at the local open air market. Tony the usual market stall holder had brought some rolls...

I decided to replace the golden beige covers I used for cushion and bean cube quite a while ago - December 2011 Home Dec Sewing . I have a...

I'm wanting some simple trousers suitable for work. I had a look through the Burda back catalgue and struck lucky in 2009. I knew it was...

Yes I've spent another evening beading, and I am hugely enjoying myself. This one takes some pearl effect beads, some cream with gold d...

Here I used dark blue, turquoise and green faux pearls in various sizes with some smaller irridescent beads for a long necklace on beading w...

I'm enjoying longer necklaces at the moment, so I took some chunky but fairly short necklaces and added components of chain, cord or b...

Necklace and earrings to wear with various items in the Oceans Collection. Improved my technique a bit by watching a few online videos...

Here are a few photos of me wearing the GBSB From Stitch to Style Japanese Style Top. I actually like this more in wear than I did when...

Here I am wearing the Palazzo Pants from GBSB From Stitch to Style. These are a size 18 and I think the extra leg width has been overdone f...

Here's the first item from the Ocean's collection, it is a pair of pinstripe navy trousers using the GBSB From Stitch to Style Palaz...

I've now hemmed the Japanese Style Top with the coverhem. It has a lot of volume and does not look good with wide leg trousers, so I ...

I've been away but started thinking about something I've named 'Oceans Eleven' which is a sea themed collection of navy, te...

Here's the top laid out flat I think I might take in that bat wing sleeve to be a shape more like the other side.

So here it is as yet unhemmed. I made the size 16, I did a little fiddling to get the stripes to match where they could and then trimmed ...

This is the book which accompanies the latest series of the Great British Sewing Bee which recently finished. I decided to sew the ...