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Rubyvale Road is a site to visit for inspiration on sewing and creating your own style.

I make sewing tutorials on YouTube featuring easy projects for anyone who wishes to explore the fun sewing can bring to your life!

16/03/2025

“The flower girls look great!” - the first words the priest said to me when I reached the altar. 😅
I love that my flower girls looked like little flowers. 🌷

These little dresses came together in the 2 weeks before the wedding with a lot of appreciated and much needed help. I pattern drafted each dress, cut them out, put them together and my friends and my mum helped with all the finishes and hems. Little dresses take so much time and especially when there are four!
I found and thankfully bought the fabric quite quickly after getting engaged as it sold out soon after. It’s 100% silk organza with a gorgeous texture in the prettiest shade of pink from
It was also one of the hardest fabrics to sew with (and the three friends who helped me with the dresses agree). Big regrets doing circle skirts because no matter how long I let them drop they just kept dropping!! But I like to think the skirts look like petals.
My mum also made their dainty fairy posies with sweet peas, hypericum, and asparagus fern.
The flower girls were truly a highlight of the wedding for me. When they joined Matt & I on the dance floor it was my favourite moment. They were all perfect!
capturing these precious moments 💞

12/01/2025

There is nothing quite like making one’s own wedding dress. I once wrote in a blog post “that it’s in the fabric, the design and the fit that makes it to your style, and in the making it yourself that makes it a truly personal statement”. I love my dress so much and it brings me so much joy to have brought my vision to life. From sourcing the very finest fabrics, drafting and toiling my pattern, hand sewing silk tulle petals on with peridot and tourmaline gemstones to add a little sparkle and finishing with self-covered buttons; my dream dress came to life. I probably spent about three quarters of 2024 just thinking about my dress and with sporadic blocks of time spent at my parents on Rubyvale Road actually making it. To be specific; a week in July, a long weekend in October and of course a very mad dash 2 weeks before the wedding to finish it 5am the day of the wedding. And perhaps that might bring anxiety to most people but I so thoroughly enjoyed working on my dress that there was nothing else I’d rather be doing then keeping happy and (shockingly) calm sewing my dress. I did not set out to seek perfection in my dress but to create a dress that would fulfil my real dream - to be a fairy. Just kidding. My real dream to feel so exactly myself to marry the love of my life before the people we love.
To make things even more personal, my mum made my bouquet and it was perfect.
Our day perfectly captured by

09/01/2025

Before I post our official wedding photos I want to share some behind the scenes of the making of my wedding dress. There is nothing quite like making one’s own wedding gown. With a clear vision of what I wanted (and perhaps a too carefree attitude) I put together my imperfectly perfect dress. Cutting silk tulle over a dining room table and an ironing board was not so fun. The panic realising I’d not actually estimated how much fabric I would need but by some miracle and pattern adjustments I just managed to cut everything I needed. I refused to add boning to my dress which would have definitely helped smooth everything out on the bodice but I loved how soft my dress felt to wear. I did many rough cut outs of the silk organza overlay but when I actually came to do it for real for the dress I didn’t even toile and just trusted it would work out. My sewing motto is always “something easy to make and easy to wear”. Making a wedding dress is certainly not easy, it is very much a labour of love but I tried to keep things as simple as I could and so on the day it truly felt so easy to wear because it felt so true to me. Last photo is my face when I finished making the skirt of my dress.

11/08/2023

The picturesque seaside town of Scopello and me wearing my self-drafted set with my hair thinking it’s about to be in a hair care ad despite the heat and sweat and hair tie on my wrist lol.
We found Scopello to be a very quiet town and on the first day we visited, the main beach was closed off for a wedding! Fortunately the next day when we passed by on boat it was back open and the boat stopped for us to jump off and have a dip (nearly drown) ahah I’m exaggerating though in the moment it felt a bit intense. I’ve been home for nearly a week and happy being back to regular life. I just have a lot more photos to share.🦋

02/07/2023

A little Agricultural festival in the Buskett Woodlands. How good is all the produce. 🍓🥬🍅🥕🫑
Also rabbit is a national dish of Malta even thought they really do love their pet rabbits. They are too cute, so I haven’t brought myself to try it. They also use the rabbit fur for fibres and weaving.

19/06/2023

Me and my red dress still doing our thing. 🍷
1. Mdina - The Silent City is so filled with the perfect photo spots.
2. St. Paul’s Bay - the water 😍
3. Mum and the gate into Mdina which is completely walled off and only allows a limited vehicles inside.
4. Hagar Qim - ancient temples built 5000 years ago. Totally unbelievable how they were made.
5. St. Peter’s Pool - my first swim in the Mediterranean and so pleased it was in such a picturesque spot.
6. Golden Bay - a sandy beach which we expect will be full come the middle of summer.
7. St. John’s Co-Cathedral - an absolutely glorious church. Everything inside was mesmerising.
8. Marsaxlokk - the prettiest fishing village.
9. Attard - a VIP suburb with lots of international embassies, villas and grande hotels.
10. San Anton Gardens Attard - first built in the 17th Century they are huge, so shady and cool.

30/05/2023

First week in Malta 🇲🇹
It’s such a beautiful country filled with friendly people, glorious churches and breathtaking views. Still plenty more to explore as we are taking things very relaxed but we are off to Sicily tomorrow for a week. 🍷🍝

- a bit hard to see in these photos but I promise more videos and photos to come!
-Red linen wrap dress: Pattern copied from a RTW dress. Linen from
-Blue madras gathered skirt: pattern self drafted and fabric from
-Blue striped maxi skirt: pattern self drafted and fabric from

11/04/2023

An Easter Picnic 🐣 special guests: homemade meat pies and chocolate brownies but the real MVPs were the crunchy M&Ms- speckled eggs edition. Rewearing my 2021 Christmas dress which I guess could be called a dress for all seasons. Fabric from dress pattern is self drafted.

19/12/2022

I made a conscious effort to rewear my dresses this festive season. Mostly so I didn’t leave everything to the last minute and be panic sewing the night before the event but also because I have so many dresses I really love and wish I wore more.
This gorgeous linen dress I made for NYE 2022 and features the epic back, halter neck front and softly gathered skirt. Perfect for a hot day and enjoying a long lunch. 🥂

07/12/2022

Colours of the season 🎀🔮🎈

23/08/2022

I turned 26 and I was still working on my birthday dress as I was getting ready for my party In fact I didn’t even finish the dress as I had planned to but I had a dress so that was enough. 🎉🎈
The dress is made from an Hermes deadstock from which I’d had my eye on all year!
The pattern is self-drafted featuring a lower than planned neckline - must account for seam allowance in future. Cotton velvet twisted straps and waist band. Inverted pleats to create the perfect puff for a party dress. And my favourite feature - pockets!!
Here’s to another year around the sun and to many more late night sewing adventures to celebrate late night party adventures. 💫💫

18/07/2022

Velvets in winter are as reliable as florals for spring. ✨🍁🍂
I love my green velvet bias skirt from 2020 so much and so I had to make another beautiful bias skirt in chocolate brown. I added a lace insert to the split and I love the dramatic asymmetric hemline. Such an easy make following bias skirt tutorial. 🧡
Silk/rayon blend velvet from
Lace from

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