I put these pockets in the two raincoats made recently, and they’re pretty well perfectly waterproof. Yay! See, while we have only had mobile phones, iPods and electronic keyless entry thingys on our car keys for a few years, they…
Year: 2012
Operation Raincoat
Warning: distinctly un-humble and boastful post to follow… I have made this; my first ever raincoat… :0 and I am thrilled!!!!! with how it turned out! Making a raincoat is one of the scary things I have always wondered was…
On lemons, cats and hearts in the grass…
Fabio contemplates boughs laden with lemons, and dreams of a summer awash with limoncello… a furry feline line… and verdant love in unexpected places… May and June were lean in handmaded-ness… but soft! all is now beyond sweet memory since…
Mustard cable-knit cowl
As those clear and cold as crystal winter mornings descend upon us, and the desire to swathe oneself in warm and cosy woolies; I have finished knitting a neck-warmer thingamy-bob. I used Rowan belle organic dk, in shade 00010. This…
The Shopping and the Spoils…
…the lowdown on the fabric and yarn shops I visited whilst in Italy and Paris. First stop, Rome; and before we had headed off on our trip I had read about Fratelli Bassetti Tessuti in a really excellent review which is also on the…
A travel wardrobe…
Time away: 27 days Where to: Rome, Umbria, Cinque Terre, Lake Como and Milan in Italy: and finally Paris Season: the later part of spring. Going by current and previous years’ weather forecasts in these parts of Europe we…
Paris in the spring; such a marvellous thing
9 June Self drafted dress, Metalicus petticoat, Vogue jacket in red silk hessian, also a self drafted Tshirt underneath (not seen) for some extra warmth. This photo above was taken by Craig on the Pont Neuf in the setting sun.…
Gadding about
4 June Here I am about to pay a visit to my pal George Clooney in Lake Como… just kidding, hehe. I don’t know who lives in this beautiful villa in Varenna, Lake Como; but the white iron lacework gate…
