This is exactly what I have been looking for. Square shouldered, unfitted, lined, below hip level with long lapels and a single button.

I think it pretty much goes without saying that sewing winter stuff is not as light and happy as sewing summer stuff.

If you search #ogdencami on Instagram you’ll see close to 13,000 posts. That’s a huge amount in any sphere, but for a sewing pattern that seems crazy big numbers.

I’ve started doing something I aways swore I’d never do. I’ve been making clothes for other people.

This blouse is absolutely everything I hoped it would be. I don’t say that often about the things I make.

God, I hate February. Every year it’s the same.

Like many fellow stitchers, I'm a big fan of Rachel Comey. Not necessarily the Vogue Patterns edit

There's this tension when writing a blog post after you've been MIA for a while;

Oh woe, oh woe. The last few months have been an unutterable fetid quagmire of sewing angst.

I haven't really been sure how to write this post. I absolutely want to tell all the lovely people who relate

Need a quick sewing fix? Like, the quickest sewing fix? That doesn’t involve pesky stretch fabrics?

I claim here and in other conversations that I only really got back into sewing three years ago.

Do you ever think there are a finite number of silhouettes and styles?

Pinterest; presenting street style as if she really does totter around the cobbles of SoHo or indeed Soho

That thing on social media of the lady declaring her hatred for leggings being worn as trousers. Yes. Yes and Yes.

So 2016 hasn't quite started with the productive, organised, positive focus I’d hoped.

I think I might have found my perfect uniform for the winter. Its winter worthy credentials include:

So, I think approximately 15 years ago, I wrote this post about my next planned copycat,