Raylene Harvey – Scarlet Stitch

Blog September 8, 2020

Muse Dress

The warmer season is approaching here in the southern hemisphere, and I’m excited to start wearing dresses again.

If you follow me on social media you’ll know that I’m currently working on my capsule wardrobe, and ironically enough aren’t many dresses in the first collection I’ve put together. Granted, it’s only 6 pieces. I’ll be sharing more about that in a future blog post, but for now, my point is that I love dresses, and creating this capsule wardrobe is challenging me to be more open to exploring other facets of this amazing sewing craft.

Blog August 4, 2020

Making a street style inspired drop-waist dress with puff sleeves

A little behind the seams vlog featuring this statement babydoll dress.

I’ve been wanting to get back into self-drafting makes again, and I thought this would be the perfect little project to do so!

Blog July 19, 2020

Sia Dress

I filmed a behind the seams vlog of the making of the Sia dress!

I’ve been wanting to do a behind the seams vlog style series on my Youtube channel for years now, and I finally decided that the only way to get it going is to just start, so here we are!

Blog July 7, 2020

The Tudor Blouse

I’ve been feeling really down.

This whole lockdown situation has got me feeling quite down lately. While I’m enjoying working from home and being able to enjoy my own space all day every day and not having to be around people, it’s gotten to a point where I realized I don’t have the self-love I thought I had.

Blog June 29, 2020

Check it out, ya’ll

Okay, I know I said I would only make a pattern once until I’ve worked through my pattern stash, but I love the #SudleyDress so much that I had to make a version with the collar!

Blog June 23, 2020

Sudley I see!

…this is what I wanna be.

Remember this song by KT Tunstall? I couldn’t resist, hehe. I can be quite punny when I feel like it!

Blog June 11, 2020

Working on my PHD…

…Projects Half Done!

Every sewist has a box of shame filled with unfinished sewing projects. At least, I’d like to think this is true, haha! I can’t be the only one… am I?

Blog May 27, 2020

Sagebrush Top

A puff sleeve ruffle dream!

Oh my goodness, when Friday Pattern Company released the Sagebrush top recently I was crushing hard on the puff sleeves and the ruffles.

Blog May 18, 2020

Arden Pants

My new favourite secret pyjamas.

About a week ago, Helen’s Closet launched the #ArdenPants which are classic high-waisted woven joggers. I’m a fan of woven-anything, so any chance I get to make something in a woven that is as comfortable as wearing knits, I’m so there.

Blog May 12, 2020

How I organize my sewing patterns

I only discovered the indie sewing pattern world last year.

And since then I’ve been building up my little collection of digital sewing patterns. I went a little crazy with the Black Friday pattern sales last year, and now I have so many patterns that I was forced to get more organized.