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5 Stitchy Gifts For Palentine’s Day!

8 Feb
2017

Valentine’s Day is generally a time for couples to celebrate their love – but have you heard of Palentine’s Day? This recently-created holiday falls on February 13th and encourages people to celebrate the other, equally important relationship with their best friends. Why not organise a fun get-together where you can present your…

3 Feb
2017

WOW! What the Sew readers made for Little Dresses for Africa

Little Dresses for Africa (LDFA) was founded in 2008 to provide relief for children throughout Africa and beyond. The organisation encourages people from across the world to make little dresses from pillow cases, or other simple patterns. Donated dresses are then distributed to underprivileged children in orphanages, churches and schools,…

30 Jan
2017

Sew Takes You Behind The Scenes At Ciment Pleating

As part of our heritage series, we took you on a journey through the ages of the pleating process. We followed the talented folk at Ciment Pleating while they made us a spectacular sunray pleat for our peplum top project which featured in our February issue. So that you can…