Multitasking.

When I'm sewing, I love to be able to get those other little jobs at the same time. These jobs range from cooking for our evening meal using a slow cooker, or just styling my hair. My mother is the world's leading advocate for slow cookers, giving them some form of praise every single they. If you have a family and often fit in sewing into gaps between sorting kids out and tidying up after every guest you've ever had who all decided to turn up in one go, a slow cooker can be a life saver. Just chuck in the ingredients like vegetables and meat and leave it whilst you potter about, and sew to your hearts content!

My other favourite activity to run along aside is curling or braiding my hair. Pin curls are currently cluttering up my head, and its lovely to put them in when starting the project, make some beautiful project and then look fabulous afterwards! It also helps keep your hair out of your face! There are many available tutorials for pin curls around on the internet and one summed up here:

• Starting with wet hair, section into inch squares.
• Turn into a circle from the end of the section of hair towards your head. The bigger the circle you start with, the looser the curl. Keep turning until you've curled your hair up to the root.
• Place the curl flat on your head, and secure with pin curl clips or bobby clips.
• Repeat for the whole head, and leave to dry.

It can take hours to dry. I have less than shoulder length hair and it takes mine about 3 hours to dry but luckily, pin curls can be slept in pretty comfortably. All this vintage themed talk has inspired me to design a swing dress in red, and a black underskirt!