Adventures in Dress Making with Alabama Chanin

Adventures in Dress Making with Alabama Chanin

So excited to write about this one - really, I cannot tell you how much.......Where to begin....at the very beginning, I suppose.   Last year, when I was finishing up my City & Guilds course, I was doing some research on 'reverse appliqué' and confess I was rather unenthusiastic about this part of the module.  That was, until I came across 'Alabama Chanin'.   It opened up a whole new world to me and oh boy...it is just totally fabulous.

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The Faraway Lands

The Faraway Lands

We have just come back from a short holiday in Scotland and I was so enamoured with it all and took some quite interesting photos, that I thought it would make a nice posting.  It is many years since we last visited these 'faraway lands' and infact we had never visited the West Coast of Scotland at all, so it was a little road trip and an adventure too and it was full of surprises.

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