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10 Gifts To Sew This Christmas

10 Gifts To Sew This Christmas (2022 Edition)

By Maaike Baudry

  I'm back with my annual list of gifts you can sew for the festive season.  Because gifts made with our own sweat and tears are...

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The Cloud Dress in a drapey denim

The Cloud Dress in a drapey denim

By Maaike Baudry

  The Cloud dress is a pattern by "Sewing Pattern by Masin", a Swiss based independent designer who studied fashion design in Melbourne! This sewing...

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Emma makes a Sudley Dress

Emma makes a Sudley Dress

By Emma Manning

Emma makes a Megan Nielsen Sudley Dress in the Mountain Collection Gum Leaf cotton poplin with a few changes… find out what she did here.

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Lander Shorts in Cotton Canvas by See You At Six

Lander Shorts in Cotton Canvas by See You At Six

By Maaike Baudry

If you're into sewing your own clothing, then the fabrics from See You At Six probably need no introduction. They release 4 collections a year,...

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wrap dress in Mind The Maker Viscose Linen

A beautiful wrap dress in Mind The Maker Viscose Linen.

By Toni Stone-Herbert

We love sewing, but there are only so many items we can sew ourselves to show you garment examples of our fabrics. So we asked the...

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Lucy's Crinkle Linen Set

Lucy's Crinkle Linen Set

By Lucy Snowden

  I made this sweet set for my 11-year-old daughter last Christmas.  She’d seen something similar in the window of a local shop and I...

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Two Asta Dresses - a pattern by Wardrobe By Me

By Maaike Baudry

  This winter I've sewn two Asta dresses, a pattern by Wardrobe By Me. A dress like this is pretty quick to sew, and even...

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Camber top by Merchant & Mills Review

Lucy's Camber top in Lady McElroy Sacred Symbol

By Lucy Snowden

I loved the Sacred Symbol Lady McElroy fabric  from the moment I first saw it and immediately insisted we needed to stock it in the MaaiDesign store. I...

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14 hoodie and sweater sewing patterns we love this winter

14 hoodie and sweater sewing patterns we love this winter

By Rosemary Huf

Well that was a sudden drop in temperature! The freezing (read below 20 degrees in Aus) temperatures have sent us into the back of our...

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