Y’know how you see some patterns, and you’re like, oh so easy!! but you go ahead and buy or trace-out or copy-as-exactly-as-possible anyway? That’s how I felt with this Tshirt pattern; top 106 from Burdastyle magazine 06/2011. I just…
Month: November 2011
Funny…
In the midst of catastrophe; a funny story, this snippet from Saturday’s West Australian. Please enjoy. It certainly gave me a laugh. That poor moggy! In regards to the bushfire; the firefighters saved about 370 homes in the path of…
The day of the bushfires
(Wrote all this yesterday, but our internet here is being veeery dodgy at the mo) Thank you Robyn, for your thoughtful well-wishes; our family and house are safe. I was a little bit concerned about my parents who are both active in…
Hot (pink) pants
G’day, peops! Remember when I mentioned a piece of hot pink linen that had befriended me in the fabric store and then beseeched me to give it a new home and some purpose in its life? (ahem) Well I’ve done the…
Crescent moon
Now my new little top here is a very quick and easy, yet still interesting design. And like all the designs from the Pattern Magic series; very very clever too, and another example of a “why hasn’t anyone thought of…
Ginger shot cotton shirt
Dad had a special birthday recently, and I made a shirt for him! Photographed here in his natural habitat… I used shot cotton in Ginger, which has a bright-ish ruby-red warp and an intensely curry-yellow weft; two colours which combine to make…
Bamboo shoot
…that is the name of this top; my latest foray into Pattern Magic, by Tomoko Nakamichi. The folds/tucks on the front of the design are like the new shoots on bamboo, spraying out to each side in graduated offset arcs. I chose…
Old things…
… this will be the very last of my “old things” posts. I promise. I’ve done a mammoth sort-through of the photos and I think this is it! (heaves a sigh of relief…) Firstly, since this is the only garment…