Sarah Harris
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Theatre Bounding
Today I went to see & Juliet in Cardiff incredible Wales Millennium Centre. What an awesome show. The entire cast was outstanding. I am thinking of booking to see it again next week. While I was watching the show an idea came to mind. Now I know there is a thing called Disney Bounding but Read more
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Five years since finishing my degree
Today marks the five year anniversary of the end of my degree. My classmates and I finished it during the first Covid lockdown. We actually didn’t have a graduation ceremony for another two years. We missed out on a lot due to lockdown. My final piece was different to my classmates as they had to Read more
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Have you ever broken a bone? Yep. My nose in rugby, tip of one finger in a car door and possibly another in sword training. Read more
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My weekend in London
So this past weekend I went away to London with my daughter. It didn’t start very well as I found out before going to bed that the place we were going to stay had cancelled the booking. So I was on the phone to booking.com trying to figure things out. The person I spoke to Read more
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Finally decided on the first item
Recently I have been watching a few of Bernadette Banner’s costume making videos on YouTube (will put a link to her channel) and have decided to make a few historical based pieces as my first items. It makes sense as that is my background regarding costuming and my degree was historical costume heavy. One of Read more
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Side piece
So a few months ago I signed up to the Hand and Lock’s The Prize. Today I have been feeling slightly lacking of energy so needed to put aside the wardrobe challenge and needed to just do some embroidery and watch tv. This picture is the back piece of what I’m creating. It’s red velvet Read more
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Happy Easter Everyone
I have not really done much regarding the challenge today as I have needed to charge my batteries after a busy week in work and a busy week coming up. One thing I try to do on days off is cook a big enough meal that I can then have over the next few days. Read more
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The research begins
Today I have started my research using some of my books. Now my background has been nearly 100% historical clothing based. I’ve no books on modern clothing. The closest is my Janet Arnold Patterns of Fashion 2 which goes up to 1940s. One major part of my degree was pattern cutting. It took a while Read more
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The plan
Its been 24 hours since setting up this new website and also starting my challenge. It is going to take a few weeks before I actually make my first item as I want to plan everything fully first. Last night I started looking through some of my historical pattern books and tonight I am building Read more
The new wardrobe 