Monthly Archives: March, 2011

Kate's A-line 60s dress - draft your own! 16/02/2019
Kate's kelly green 60s style A-line dress has a gorgeous dart configuration and interesting pocket detail. Here's a quick tutorial to draft your own version. The dart configuration is unusual - while it looks like there are three darts there are actually only two since the vertical part is simply a join at the centre front. This shape is accented w […]
NEW! Introducing Capital Chic Outfit Designer 16/01/2017
I'm very excited to be unveiling a new feature on our website today: Capital Chic Outfit Designer! The idea behind Outfit Designer is to help you plan your sewing projects using Capital Chic patterns - you can select any dress, shirt or skirt (or any combination of the separates) from either of our collections and choose a colour or upload a photo of so […]
NEW PATTERNS ALERT! Winter 2016 Collection launches today 18/11/2016
It's pattern launch day! I'm so excited to show you what I've been working on for the Winter 2016 collection. I know it's been a while coming, so thanks for sticking with me for this long! Anyway, there are four new patterns in this collection... Firstly there is a shirt/shirt dress I have named Cuba Libre. This one came about because I w […]

RT @CasparSalmon: Yesterday I commiserated with the woman who owns my local wine shop, about it getting shut down, and because she's French… 1 day ago
A detail from #diordesignerofdreams : in this toile there were many ROWS of horsehair braid throughout the skirt to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 2 days ago
So I went to the Dior exhibit... It was amazing! Highly recommended. Loved seeing this beauty in real life, but the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 4 days ago
After only 5 years of trading (!), have finally gotten round to setting up an Instagram account for my pattern comp… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… 1 week ago
RT @capitalchic: I've finally set up an Instagram account for Capital Chic Patterns! Follow me for new pattern releases, sneak peeks, behin… 1 week ago