The Big BEE Sewing Club

11/09/2026

I don’t know which of these photos I am more amazed by - this is the first time this sewer has ever bagged out a coat lining and haven’t they done a fabulous job?

Just look at that roll on the sleeve edge. And the beautiful lining up of all the component parts at the meeting of the hem and the facing.

Wow, just wow, wow, wow!

I am so proud of this and the person who made it, so proud I could burst!

10/09/2026

I know that it sometimes feels like there is no alternative. I know that sometimes it feels as if everyone will be far better off without you. I know how hard it is to reach out and how devastating it is when you do and no-one hears you or helps. I also know how hard it is to make yourself understood and how hard it can be to be the one trying to understand: I've been both sides. I've been there without hope and I've been there to support.

And I also know how absolutely gut wrenchingly sh!tty it feels to see people saying "reach out" and things like "I'm always here" when you know they will never be the one to want to help and I promise you with whole being that I will be there if anyone needs me! I can't promise I have the solutions, sometimes all I can offer is a shoulder to cry on and a sympathetic ear but what I can do I will do!

The world IS a better place with you in it.

10/09/2026

It’s the satin worshipers we should really worry about. That stuff is really slippery and clearly hates all who try to reshape it.

Anti MUSLIN hate has gotten out of control and I, for one, will not stand for it.

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06/09/2026

Back in BC (before cancer) Losana B was my life and teaching my ‘bit on the side’. Now we’re in AC (after cancer) things have been reversed.

While there are good reasons, health reasons, for them reversing I still really want to create and sell more bags, accessories and clothing and I believe I have found a way to do so.

And of course the plan involves showing you how I make them all.

And even how to make them yourself!

6 years after cancer. 6 years lived through fear and pain, into fear of the big wide world and out the other side. 6 years that have left me with constant pain, fatigue and health problems but alive! And of course alive is the important bit.

Throughout those years I’ve had every intention of bringing Losana B back to what it was, the intentions but not the energy. Now it is time to accept it’s never going to be what it was before but I still don’t want it to die, I still want Losana B bags to exist and to be as brilliant as ever and as popular as they had grown to be but I can’t do all that myself anymore.

So, I have a plan. A plan that’s slowly coming together, slowly because everything I do these days is slow - slow stitching, slow living, slow consuming (it’s actually a great way to live). A plan that’s formulating from an idea that’s based on what Losana B was, what the The Big BEE Sewing Club is, the effects the past 7 years had on my life along with what I want, need, from life these days and which might, hopefully, include a version of what The Re-Makers was meant to be. A proper plan that just needs a bit of tweaking, and some graphics (the hard bit!), before it can start to become reality.

But reality it will become!

06/09/2026

What the heck am I doing even being awake never mind up and active at 7.30am on a Sunday?

I’ve had a few busy days resulting in horrendous pain so yesterday, Saturday, was pretty much a day of doing nothing but rest. Not because I didn’t want to do anything or didn’t have anything to do, oh no quite the opposite, I have a huge list of things I need to do both around the house and sewing - laundry to catch up with, the bathroom needs a good deep clean, my bedroom needs a clear out, the floor could do with a good vacuum, the workroom is still in chaos from when it was home to our new family member and don’t even think about the decorating and diy that so desperately needs doing but has no hope of being done! That’s just some of the ‘needs to be done’ list, the ‘want to do’ list is even longer! I did try to do some yesterday morning but it proved too much and I had to give up so I have literally rested and slept from Saturday lunch until now.

So now here I am wide awake at 7.30am. On a Sunday! I feel mentally rested, my legs feel fine until I stand up, my arms still feel like they did 10 rounds with Tyson but do I feel sleepy now? No. The joys of living with a chronic condition, even if we still don’t have a name for my condition 😂 More tests scheduled this month 😢

I have taken advantage of this peaceful time to fetch the photos from yesterday from my phone and here are a few, I’ll add detail in posts to come!

01/09/2026

Paper, paper everywhere!

Using the big tables at Tesco makes assembling A4 printed PDF patterns much easier, especially for those of us who can’t down on the floor anymore. Or rather, if they did get down they’d be staying on the floor, for ever, and ever, and ever 😂. I made the mistake of getting down a while back, stupid, stupid idea it was 😂😂😂

01/09/2026

Why do so many people, women especially, feel it’s okay to tell others, mostly women again, what they should and should not wear?

Wear your florals, your radish print t-shirts and mushroom dungarees. Love your dresses with dinosaurs, make your legs pop with colour, stock on those Mary Janes. If you’re goth you are goth, there’s no ‘fake goth’ and it’s okay. Love a classic suit? Jeans and sweats? Cocktail dresses in the day time? All absolutely okay!

Wear a ballgown to watch TV and eat pizza if it makes you happy!

And learn to make your own of course because then you can have totally unique pieces. Even a mushroom, radish, dinosaur and florals dungaree and T with goth ball gown over skirt is possible. Don’t forget to wear it with Mary Jane’s!

I’m even tempted to make that outfit now 😀

Not sure if I’m just feeling meh….but I just feel like going home and throwing all my clothes away. I’m currently on my way home from holidaying on th...