Are you ready for the next instalment of our Sewing Community Project?! I’m so thrilled to introduce you to my dear friend Deepti who is honestly amazing and inspires me so much. She is incredibly passionate about sustainability in all parts of her life, from the sustainable straw bale home her and her husband designed and built together, to her adventures in zero waste sewing. She is fantastic at hacking patterns and bending them to her will!

For our community shoot Deepti made a Sudley dress in this gorgeous print from our studio, and I love her addition of pockets in the side seams! 

I can’t help but smile looking back at these photos of Deepti and her bestie Alice from our community shoot – these two are a perfect example of true friendship.

I really hope you enjoy reading all about Deepti and her sewing journey!

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Hello friends I hope you’ve had a good week and are looking forward to todays Community feature!! I’m so happy to be introducing you to the very lovely Julia today. I was lucky enough to meet Julia last year at my studio grand opening day, and I am so glad I did because she is an absolute joy! Julia made a Banksia blouse with gorgeous Arrow Mountain moon phase buttons and tapered leg Dawn jeans with white Japanese denim from our website as well as our matching hardware kit. I think the thing that really takes these jeans to the next level is the embroidery. She embroidered not only one of the back pockets but also one of the front pockets, and I think she learnt the hard way that if you embroider your back pocket we will take approximately 500 million photos of your bottom. Sorry not sorry hehehe

What I love about Julia is how she has jumped head first into sewing. Do you know she’s only been sewing a little over a year? She is ALL IN, sewing all the things with joy and positivity and having a wonderful time – which is what it’s all about!

I have absolutely loved reading all about Julia’s sewing journey and I really hope you do too!

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Hello friends! I had to take a break from posting our community series last week as I caught a nasty cold (don’t worry, it’s not COVID I had a test ;) ) – but I’m back this week and so excited to introduce you to my lovely friend Eleanor! I met Eleanor a few years ago at the first Perth Frocktails hosted by Nat of Sew For Life and since then have loved getting to know her more. I would describe her as pure joy – you can probably tell from these photos but she is an incredibly funny, witty and entertaining person and I think it would be impossible to spend time in her company without walking away smiling. I love her attitude to sewing – prioritising enjoyment of the make over torturing yourself over details. For our community shoot Eleanor decided to make a pair of Dawn jeans in black ex Levi’s denim from our studio and Sudley cropped blouse in striped linen from our studio. I love a good monochrome outfit and this one is absolutely chic!

We asked Eleanor a million questions about her sewing journey and I really hope you enjoy reading all of her answers!

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