Summer is well under way here and it’s time for  my annual blog break! I’ll be going away soon for Lisbon, Portugal. I’ll hopefully have lovely weather and a great time. I’ll be back to blogging and sewing beginning of September! Until then, I hope you all have a great August! L’été est bel et [...]

If you are into sewing you may have already used an overlock sewing-machine (or a “serger”). I don’t have my own one, but at work we have two industrial ones. Of course, one of them is being a right pain at the moment (and we’ve already had a repair man in the other day). Overlockers [...]

I opened up a new twitter “professional” account this week (@LucyChalkHats) if you want to go follow my hat/fashion/design tweets! I started it because it was bothering me that hatters and milliners were following me on my personal account. Obviously this hasn’t changed anything, nobody has unfollowed my personal account. Apparently, everybody loves to hear [...]

I was lucky enough to see Björk perform live last weekend (yes, it was awesome!) and it got me thinking about her various headwear she has worn. Björk is known for being quite extravagant with the way she dresses and the one headpiece that I always remember is the one made out of hair on [...]