As part of the Get Ready for Spring blog tour, today I'm reviewing the Girl's With Love dress sewing pattern from Ellie and Mac. This is a great sewing project for beginners and is a fun dress with ruffles and a gathered sleeve. Read on for my full pattern review. Read more about Get Ready for Spring: With Love dress pattern review

Sewing a straight line is so much harder than I thought. Here are the best tips for how to sew straight lines, including how to improve your sewing technique and tools to help you along faster. Read more about From wavy to wonderful: How to sew straight lines

There's only so many ruffles and frills you can sew before you start looking for something different. Today, I'm featuring my favourite dress sewing patterns that have fun back details - from cutouts to criss-cross, these fun patterns have the wow factor when a little girl turns around. Read more about Party in the Back: girl's dress sewing patterns with fun back details

Sew perfect binding every time with an adjustable binding foot. An easy tutorial with lots of tips here for how to use a binding foot for quilting or clothes. I'll never sew bias binding another way after using this cheap tool that's available for most sewing machines, including Janome, Brother and Bernina.  Read more about How to use a binding foot