Last Thursday we celebrated publication of The Little Book of Sewing with a party at The Village Haberdashery – and what a party it was!

I’d ordered photo-printed cupcakes carrying miniature images of the book cover but – doh! – ordered them for the wrong day. Still, that didn’t spoil our fun.

Kate of The Foldline arrived early to film a pre-party book interview with me – you can see it here.

I had lots of butterflies in my tummy, but once people started to arrive I calmed down. Thanks so much for joining me, if you were there! There was lots of laughter and chat – everyone got on so well and it was lovely to introduce friends from different spheres of my life.

I gave a little speech, gulping back the emotion, signed books – and laughed like a drain when someone mistook my editor friend, Jon, for TMOS!

As part of the speech, I made people cheer if they could answer YES to the following three questions. Which question do you think received the loudest cheer?

1. Do you ever buy fabric with no idea what you’re going to use it for?
2. Do you ever sew naked?
3. Do you ever sew whilst drinking alcohol?

I love this photo of myself, Tilly and Rachel. If ever there was proof of sewing’s worth, it’s these three very different female bodies.

And, of course, I wore my red dress – also of dreams. I felt very comfortable in it. I’m going to sew one for a friend – and I hardly ever sew for friends!

I wish you could all have been there, but it would have been a very crowded room … and the prosecco would have disappeared early!

With thanks to The Village Haberdashery and Head of Zeus.