Today is the last day of autumn 🙁 So I thought I’d mark it by wearing my favourite autumn made garment; my trench coat. I’ve got it on over a Tshirt and skirt here, but I like how trenches can…
Month: May 2010
Dining room curtains
Sewing curtains is a real drag. No seamstress will say otherwise. Boring, all straight seams, no challenge in it. And mundane. Most of the curtains I’ve made have been plain rectangles with curtaining tape sewn on at the top, which…
Beautiful blogger award
I was so thrilled to look in my comments and see an award from the lovely Anne; thanks so much Anne! Whooo, now I have to list ten things about myself… I always find this so difficult because I’m not very…
Champagne in the city
I am sometimes accused, by family members who shall remain nameless, of never wearing an outfit more than once. Well, ahem, I do wear things more than once, but choose not to bore readers of this blog with repeat photos…
Pattern Magic; page 11
The latest in the Pattern Magic toiles; this one is on page 11. There is a minuscule chance I will wear this toile. Maybe it is a bit young for me; much as I detest that phrase “age appropriate…
Satisfyingly swishy skirt
Dug this skirt out again from the recesses of my wardrobe… I don’t know why I’m not wearing it as often as I once did. I love it. I made this last summer; not the summer we’ve just had but…
Karajini socks
So named because I knitted these as we drove up to Karajini for a camping holiday with our friends the A’s. I knitted one sock on the way up, and the other sock on the trip home. It is my…
Navy blue jacket
Digging through my winter wardrobe is producing some old creations… This jacket I made about two years ago and wore quite a lot for the last two winters. This year I looked at it a bit sideways, wondering if it…