I worked a lot on this dress this week - it still wants major efforts to get it to completion, and so I'm using Needlework Monday to reflect on what it needs doing - and to hold me accountable to finish

This is the bag that took so very long for me to finish: there is something rather special about a thing that has to be put aside for a good while – for me, it creates a tension that is like a bow string

Beautiful Needlework Friends! I've been back at the sewing table this week, at last - and have already finished a very nice (in the end, started months ago!) bag, and very nearly completed another pair

the skirt of this coat, beginning to take shape Not quite the classic ‘lingerie and a fur coat’ – a phenomenon that is quite fun and sensuous, but this week I am very proud to have made good progress on

the current stage that I'm (a wee bit stuck) at These huge trousers are my latest invention, and I really would benefit from some advice from you all – I trust very much in the Needlework Monday community

after - work in progress before My #needleworkmonday efforts were somewhat scuppered this week by the weather: we've been inundated with it, following the breaking of the drought! Now high winds, rain

Welcome all to our photoshoot (Clare. & Vincent.) !! Join us as we enjoy our land in our new clothing! We've had a lot of fun documenting my recent creations: @vincentnijman 's funky workwear and my

the final photoshoot will come soon, I promise! Dearest Hive Friends & Needleworkers! Remember these? After I made my own fabulous dungarees for glamourous gardening, and set out to make @vincentnijman

Dearest Hive Friends and Sewing Enthusiasts of all kinds! The pop-up expo of my handmade clothing is ended, as is our time in Guardia Sanframondi again, and @vincentnijman – and I do not mind at all admitting

as promised: some snaps of the dress on myself - thanks to Vincent! Dearest Hive Needleworkers & Friends! Here's a new dress, made from a beautiful old bedsheet: one of the few items of bedlinen that

shorts made from smaller shorts, trouser legs and a skirt Dearest Needlework Monday Friends, We’re packing again, this time with a sewing machine – my oldest wee blue Brother one from 1960 – for our land

shamelessly unironed! Dearest Needleworking Hive! This is the (unfinished) showstopper – part one; I began a complex alteration/ adaptation of it, yesterday – after a great feedback talk with @vincentnijman

Dearest Hive Needleworkers and Clothing Enthusiasts! This has been the most favoloso week of sewing in Atelier McMA, as we get closer to the date of the expo of my new ‘collection’: the mastery is slowing

Dearest Needlework Community and Creative Hive Friends! My blog this week is about Finishing: I am working harder at completing garments that I have begun, and at breaking through the stickiest points

Dearest Hive Needleworkers and Friends, This week was rollercoasterish and quite perturbing in places – but throughout I’ve been sewing passionately, and this Monday morning sees TWO garments - almost

the new atelier/ living room! Dearest Needlework Community and Hive Friends! It is a gloriously bright, if cold, sunny morning – and for the first #needleworkmonday in a while, I am in a cosy kitchen and

Getting super inspired by letting go and letting a whacky stripey dress appear!

The alchemy of finishing the handmade reaches out into the world and touches much more than conventional clothing can...

Now, I am super-selective about where and how I share, and much of the magic that happens in my LifeWork ...

Why do we wear tiny underwears, which are usually a wee bit too tight at best?