In making my grey striped jersey dress here, I opted to re-inforce the shoulder seams. I do not re-inforce the shoulder seams in all my knit garments, but in this case; a long tank dress in a stretchy fabric, where…
Year: 2012
A little bit of Sunshine…
Recently Donna gave me the Sunshine award, thank you so much Donna! I thought at first that I already had this one… but I noticed that this Sunshine award is a New-and-Improved Sunshine award that now comes with a cool little…
St Patrick’s Day
I’m a wee bit late, but … Fabio is after wishing a Top o’ the Morning to all ye people of the Irish persuasion!
Grey stripes
I’ve made a new dress for autumn! (sneaky peeked in my Fashionary here) More accurately, I made this about a month ago and have been awaiting a day I can actually wear it without unladylike perspiration marring the photograph. (ew) It…
Ex-ci-ted!
Ohmigosh, I can hardly believe it myself, but I WON the Red Dress contest over at Pattern Review! Sooooooo thrilling! If any of my kind readers did put in a vote for my dress, then THANK YOU so much! I…
Miniature “denim jacket” purse
I’ve been making some funny little purses; as silly birthday gifts for my crafty friends. I got the idea for these from a miniature leather jacket coin-purse that we have from goodness-knows-where, I think it was given to Cassie sometime…
Peekaboo in blue
New top, woot! Its real name is a mystery to me, but the word peekaboo just pops irresistably into my head every single time I look at it so there it is! This is the project on p20 of Pattern…
Pruning and baking…
… I’ve been getting out in the garden. And engaged in some brutal hacking garden maintenance. But I felt sad about those fallen sprays of soft and velvet-y grey-green, and gathered them up, and made an arrangement. Quite nice, don’t you think?…
