The bardot top (or off the shoulder top) was a huge trend last year. This year it looks set to return with a vengeance. They are perfect for when the weather…
Browsing Category
Featured Fabrics
-
-
We are fully in the swing of sewing Christmas gifts here at Croft Mill. I am leaving hints around the office for a tweed coat. How well my pot-it notes work,…
-
This week, we had minor heart palpations. We tuned into BBC 2 at 9pm, and found tennis instead of sewing. We do like tennis, however we do like sewing more… A…
-
Maybe it is just a coincidence that the Euros are starting this week, where all the national football teams get together for a kick about. Maybe the brains behind The Great…
-
The third episode of The Great British Sewing Bee was all about how the sewers managed with delicate fabrics. As such, what better way to test them than to have lingerie…
-
Last night we saw the second episode of The Great British Sewing Bee, which was entirely dedicated to children’s wear. The first round was doubly challenging, as not only were the…
-
In days gone by, the local towns surrounding Croft Mill relied heavily on the various local cotton mills. Fabrics were made in the mills for everything from turbans to first aid,…
-
Now then, I am only speaking from personal experience here, so I may seem like a bit of an odd ball. When I first started sewing I started on cottons and…
-
A while back we all watched the contestants on The Great British Sewing Bee struggle while sewing with lace. As such we thought we help to demystify the process by sharing some…
-
All About Fabric Chino Competitions & Offers Croft Mill Sewing Dress Fabrics Featured Fabrics Give Aways Jersey FabricsSewing for Spring
Sewing for the Holidays I don’t know about you, but it seems like a lot of people are beginning to book their holidays. One of the (many) things I love about…
-
A few weeks ago, we debated on Twitter and Facebook whether the challenges on this series of The Great British Sewing Bee had been harder than ever before. I think that…
-
All About Fabric Croft Mill Sewing Featured FabricsThe Great British Sewing Bee: Episode 5, Tartan Fabrics, Suits and Corsets.
On the last episode of The Great British Sewing Bee we had two shocks. Firstly that the next episode would be the semi-final. How did that happen? We are sorry to…
-
On the last episode of The Great British Sewing Bee the order of the day was vintage. The first challenge was to make the 1950’s ‘Walk away’ dress. During the patterns…
-
If you have been keeping an eye on our Facebook page, you will have seen that we posted a pattern that we thought would suit one of our fabrics… Only to…
-
We have lots of lovely new knit fabrics, so we thought it might be helpful to compile a list of knit fabric sewing tips. We’ve questioned and debated with all the…
-
All About Fabric Croft Mill Sewing Featured Fabrics Jersey Fabrics Sewing TipsJersey – Easy Sewing Patterns
Many of you were interested in our ‘Just Jersey Tips’ post, which, as you can guess from the name, had some tips for sewing jersey fabric, so we decided it was high…
-
Any one got the blues? We are celebrating the Colne Blues Festival this weekend, it is just up the road, in fact it is on the same road as us and…
-
Monochrome is a look that will simply never date no matter what time of year so we have put together some of our black and white fabrics all in one place and with…
-
We are so excited to be blogging about this because we know how popular these fabric bundles are! Now then, we’ve had a bit of a change round with them- going…
-
The season of garden parties and barbeques is in full swing and we’re hoping for continual blue skies, though based in Lancashire this may be slightly in vain. We’re a realistic…
