So on what is yet another sunny sunny day (yeah, we do get lots of them here) I would normally head straight for the shadows away from that notoriously harsh Australian light that drains all colour and detail from my…
Year: 2012
Cordelicious
O, hai, peops! (drum roll) another pair of Burda 7723 shorts. This is ma “greige” corduroy pair, that gets more appreciation as the cooler autumn weather rolls around. The pattern modified in that they are longer, and substantially flared. Colours,…
Limoncello
Today I’m wearing (Surprise!) shorts! 😀 But great colour, yes? In a fresh and cool shade of acidic citrus yellow, like a shot glass of limoncello, that wickedly delicious stuff that is to my mind another synonym for “summer evening”.…
Peachy keen
I knew I should attempt to work this jacket into at least one day of the one-week-one-pattern challenge. And today is the coolest day forecast for this week (27C) so I decided that today just had to be that day.…
White as white…
I’m pretty good with laundry. These shorts are a testament to that, since I made them over two years ago, the first pair of shorts using this week’s pattern Burda 7723; and despite being subjected to rock-climbing, hiking, camping (just…
Get shorty
This week I am taking part in another cool online sewing community project; the One Week One Pattern project set up by Tilly… yay! I love join-in stuff like this! So the idea is that we choose one pattern and…
Fun with Photoshop
I’ve got a version of Photoshop with which to experiment, and I found a really fantastic ombre tutorial here. This photo has a single gradient layer added; (33.3% (Gradient Fill 1, RGB/8*)* … er, I don’t really know what that actually means,…
Dusky pink ‘bustle” skirt; 6 different ways
This dusky pink skirt of a very simple and yet at the same time very unusual shape has been one of my favourites since I made it and it has appeared multiple times here on the blog already. Â It is…
