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…
Year: 2011
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…
Gloves: cutting out, seams, and putting in the thumbs
Cutting out: It’s probably not necessary for me to go into a lot of detail here about how to cut out pattern pieces, it is pretty straightforward and the same as any other dressmaking pattern, but with a few little…
