Tweed Run 2018
The 2018 Tweed Run was on this weekend - Saturday 5th May - and marked it's 10th year anniversary. I've been lucky enough to attend about 6 of them, I…
FREE convertible cycle wear PDF sewing pattern packs – available NOW
Victorian women's CONVERTIBLE CYCLE WEAR sewing patterns are here! Six PDF pattern packs (for a total of 9 garments) are FREE to download. Each is inspired by the research patents…
Tweed Run 2017
Tweed Run time again. I dug through the cupboard for tweedy options and in the end went with a more subtle black pinstripe wool this year. As usual I adapted…
Tweed Run 2016
For this year's London Tweed Run, I was hoping to channel Elsa Von Blumen's dressmaker. Sadly, I did not have the time to accomplish the full splendour of this American…
Tweed Run 2015
The London Tweed Run is always something special. This year was no exception. And I made the entire costume. The 1890s bloomers had to be tailored to fit the penny…
Tweed Run 2014
I joined the annual Tweed Run on the weekend. It is one of the best dressed cycle rides in London. The irony of having to make a completely separate tweedy outfit…
Bloomer Making Day II – review
It seemed only right that I should transport all of the sewing equipment for the Bloomer Making Workshop to LMNH by bicycle, so I hired one of Alix Stredwick's fantastic…
Bicycle Bloomer Making Workshop II
We are running our next Bicycle Bloomer Making Workshop at Look Mum No Hands on Saturday 5th April. UPDATE: The workshop is now FULL but we have added a waiting list!…
Show & Tell #1: Dresses, Drinks and Data!
The first Show & Tell event for the ESRC funded Transmissions and Entanglements research project featuring our work-in-progress on ‘Freedom of Movement; the bike, the bloomer and female cyclist in late C19th Britain’ was…