… is all that is needed. This is a bit of nothingness really, but I am wearing something for the first time here: my floaty cloud of a scarf. This is one of my Parisian fabric purchases about which I…
Month: August 2012
A Man-hoodie
I sew mostly for myself 🙂 Now my children are all grown up they select and buy their own clothes, of course. It’s a rare occasion for anyone to make a request 🙁 although I do so love it when they…
Bees on white cotton
(to be sung to the tune of Knights in White Satin, of course 😉 ) I was quite taken with the grub roses kbenco has been embroidering onto her knits, and was inspired to follow suit… so for my latest…
Red Riding Hood
…along with requisite “wolf” hehehe. This is the latest in my attempts to make usable things out of things not being used…. I pulled out of my bag of toss-outs this oversized cotton cardigan along with another old Tshirt tossed…
Spiral leggings
From my first flick-through the book I always knew this project was a must-make… the spiral leggings on p 52 of Pattern Magic 3, by Tomoko Nakamichi. The design is, like so many in the Pattern Magic series, excessively cool.…
Lemons, lemons, lemons…
Like many households in Perth at the mo’ we have lemons. Lots of lemons. We are overloaded with lemons. We have lemons coming out of our ears. To say I have lemons on the brain is no exaggeration!! Last week…
Sleeve
Tattoo-ed sleeves are a “fashion” trend just like anything else, and so hot right now! (ergo, probably destined to be so not some day 🙂 ) in the meantime I’ve made for myself a new Tshirt that is a nod to…
A tee or three
I have made a few new Tshirts… I’ve noticed a few examples of mixing and matching different colour and/or width stripes in the one Tshirt, and decided to have a go at adding something like to my wardrobe; using up…
