Here we are, the very last day of the year! and a good time to reflect… was the year fabulous? was it awful? was it so humdrum we now cannot remember a single thing? Of course, the beauty of having…
Month: December 2012
Extras…
Hmmm, I’m going to have to squeeze a few lobbed-in-together Christmas-make posts, or I am not going to finish this biz before the end of the year! Firstly; as I am sure everyone is aware 😉 Christmases here are HOT!…
As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress
Last up: Cassie! and I made a dress for Cassie for Christmas this year; this is the loose drape tank-top from drape drape by Hisako Sato. I used a thin cotton jersey, printed in an interesting fractured pixels design of…
White Christmas; Craig’s Christmas shirt
I made a shirt for Craig for Christmas too; and used er, hehehe; Burda 7767 again! I bought some very nice white cotton broadcloth from Spotlight; and the buttons are also from Spotlight. Actually, this shirt is a response to…
Stripey Sam; Sam’s Christmas shirt
Next up; Sam! and I made a shirt for his Christmas pressie too. Ohhhh yes, I have been a very very busy bee lately! I used Burda 7767, and blue and white striped fabric from the Fabric Store, Melbourne… bought during…
Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt
I made a shirt for our eldest son for a Christmas pressie… using Burda 7767 (surprise!!) and some lovely deeply sludgy, purply-chocolate linen bought from the Fabric Store in Melbourne during our September visit there, and I found the perfect…
the Wolery
After my brothers and I had all moved out of home and started our own families; I started a rather non-rigid, and not annual, tradition of making a Christmas ornament for each of us… just something silly and small, not…
Looking sharp! Craig’s birthday shirt
It is my husband’s birthday, and I have made a shirt for him! I used my favourite my only! men’s shirt pattern Burda 7767, adjusted for a perfect custom fit; and a gorgeously high quality, striped shirting cotton from Tessuti’s in Melbourne,…