This is the dress I made our daughter for her Christmas present this year. I know her tastes very well and could picture exactly the dress I wanted to make for her, but was quite anxious about how to go about…
Month: December 2010
A boxy little jacket; a refashion
I’m so pleased with this latest refashion that I finished just yesterday, that I just had wear it even though it’s really too hot for this time of year… I took an old pair of too big, light cotton twill…
Tim’s shirt
This is a shirt I made for our eldest son for a Christmas present. I didn’t need to be secret working on this one, as he was working up in Kalgoorlie up until only a few days before Christmas. I’m…
Lichen shot-cotton shirt
This is a shirt I made for Craig for his Christmas present, cut out and made up in lots of super secret cloak-and-dagger sewing sessions… although he did help choose the fabric a year ago, so perhaps he might have had…
Vogue 8555; a pattern review
(shamefaced) I took some more photos of the dress; inside because the ones Craig took on Christmas Day were a tad blustery. Yeees, don’t know if you can tell or not but I was being windblasted about mercilessly and those…
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, all! Wishing you a wonderfully happy and peaceful day together with your families and friends! Details: Dress; Vogue 8555, with a bodice front of my own design, and added petticoat and waist tie, printed cotton Shoes; Sandler, had for many…
Dressing for a road trip
What to wear for a very long hot drive down into the country; joining the entire clan for a massive Christmas celebration en famille…? Exhibit A. Comfortable. Cool. But vaguely halfway stylish and not tooooo casual; for the dropping off…
New life for an old polo Tshirt
Dipping into the ol’ bag of toss-outs I took out an old polo Tshirt of my husband’s. He never wears it anymore, but the fabric is quite OK if not super duper beautiful or anything… It is made of a…
