De-cluttering, making space, moving forward

How Carpeting Enhanced My Creative Head Space. Earlier this year we got our house carpeted and if you know what a job that is you might have some foresight into just what we went through. Everything I mean EVERYTHING had to be moved out of the house, 5 bedrooms and a...

The end is nigh, well the end of 2016 and a big thank you

Let me start off by saying a big Thank You! to you,  my loyal supporter. There has been lots of negativity in the news lately, however Uku Chic is happy to report lots of good news. December was a record month for the amount of items sewn to reach happy customers in...

Honey, who shrunk the clothes

Do you have that problem, where the clothes you bought last (insert whichever season applies) for the kids which you put away to be worn again no longer fit? I have been having lots of fun lately sewing all sorts of styles with lots of different fabrics, while also...

Soft Fabric, Warm Fabric……

I have been working with a few fabrics lately. Gorgeous quilting cottons and luscious organic cotton knit fabric from Europe. The quilting cottons are so varied and I have made some up into handy cosmetic purses, I just wanted to keep making more to satisfy...

Beginnings – How Uku Chic got its start

It seems like it was only yesterday, but it was 4 years on 7th April since the inception of Uku Chic. It all started with a birthday – mine. Friends and family were invited for lunch and I decided it would be fun to have a dessert table. I decided on a theme...