I made for my husband another shirt using the Kaffe Fasset shot cotton from purl soho. This fabric is so wonderful to work with I’ve considered a few times sneaking off with it to make myself something instead of for him… but…
Month: February 2011
Grecian ball dress
I made this ball dress in 2004, for a conference function we were attending in the Louvre in Paris, where I couldn’t look underdressed. It was an important event in our calendar and I needed to dress to impress. Thankfully…
Mineral Green socks
How much do my feet hate me right now? So much, and why? oh let’s not get onto the weather again… Which brings me to this, I apologise for all the whinging yesterday. I always promised myself I wouldn’t whinge…
Another hot day… and some glove stuff
Strange thing. When I logged onto my blog this morning, it popped up and said I am following no blogs! How did that happen? I don’t recall going through and un-following any blogs… perhaps I am a far more active and…
Little yacht romper
A blast from the past for today… This is a little romper suit I made for our eldest Tim when he was tiny. I have no memory of where I got the pattern, it might have been a TopKids design,…
A new sundress
I made a new sundress for myself… using the summer-weight cotton fabric I had bought during our shopping day out in Tokyo with Yoshimi and Novita. Japanese fabric! This now is one of my wearable souvenirs from our trip…! The…
Gloves: finishing off, and a pattern review
Relax, the difficult bit is well and truly over. All that is left are straightforward finishing off seams… easy peasy! The version I chose here has a long gathered body to it, with elastic sewn in the long sides to…
Gloves: fingers!
The tops of the fingers: The next step in the glove making process is to stitch across the tops of each finger-tip. This is a tiny little seam, but still pretty vital… so I basted all of these before sewing…
