Monthly Archives: July, 2011

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 […]
Simple Dressing Gown 07/07/2016
Of course, I wanted a matching dressing gown for my Carolyn night shirt. I decided on something that was easily made without a pattern as I wanted to get it finished as quickly as possible. This Kimono-style dressing gown is therefore made from rectangles and L-shapes sewn together. It’s made from the same pink fabric as I used for the piping in my night shi […]

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RT @agytextileart: The ancient Egyptians "used double and sequential dying and weaving, and twisting fibres to create myriad colours from t… 1 week ago
RT @julie_cohen: I am down with the fact that The Doctor found her entire new outfit in a Sheffield charity shop. #DrWho 1 week ago
RT @revkatebottley: It is impossible to eat fruit cake without cheese twitter.com/Wdalecreamery/… 2 weeks ago
RT @FionaParker17: If you’re looking for a new sewing machine, perhaps your very first one, you might want to take a look at this recent ar… 3 weeks ago