I have been sewing curtains! This is our central hallway, an area that has been curtain-less since… well, since ever. It has a very big and long window, which is fabulous for getting plenty of natural light inside. But it…
Year: 2012
Fashionary
Thank you for those compliments on my sketch in the previous post; but I have to own up right now that I’m not really much of an artist… I cheated! 🙂 My “artistry” is all thanks to the Fashionary…. I first…
White, with a navy grid
I’ve made a new little top…. well, just a summer version of a T-shirt really, from scraps, the leftovers from this shirt. Constructively finishing off another small wad of fabric from my stash. Smug self back-patting ensues. This stuff…
An casual edging for knits
I used this great edging for some of my latest T-shirts. This is a nice casual look for thin floppy knits that don’t fray very much. It works really well on those fabrics that want to curl up spontaneously… and it’s…
Some basics…
Nothing in this post is write-home-about exciting, but I have been laying down some handy layering basics for the cooler days that will be coming up …. sometime? … 🙂 I’m thinking ahead, to autumn. Planning, you know. Being organised …
Top; Gone a bit Batty
My latest project. Do you like the name? I know, right? I could get a job at Anthropologie, thinking up delightfully poetic tag-lines for the clothing, for sure. I am sometimes capable of romanticism, and dreaming up evocative monikers, conjuring…
Tracing through the years
I have a small collection of Burda magazines from the late 70’s and early 80’s. These were bought new back then by my mother for her own use and I have them now for safe-keeping. I loved looking through these…
A sludgy little skirt
Hooo boy. We are having an insane heatwave right now… been 37C or above for over a week now. Australia Day was 42C, phew… We all spent the entire day in bathers, in and out of the pool. The fireworks…
