I have knitted a cardigan. And weeeeeeee! this is the final thing in my eleven piece swap. Finished… hurrah! The Miette is designed by Andi Satterlund, and is available as a free download here. Such a great little pattern.…
Year: 2014
Inside Out
Meggipeg alerted me to the fact that today, 24th April, is Fashion Revolution Day; thank you Megan! and it was lovely to finally hang out together, in person 🙂 So I am wearing my dress and my cardigan inside out…
“Baseball” skirt and tee
This is just a bit of silliness really; remember I said I had some idiotic plans for my leftover off-white leatherette? well I just hopped straight into it. This is a new skirt, leatherette with red stitching to delineate the seam…
Piped trench
I have made a winter coat for myself! It’s a dark charcoal woollen trench with the seaming and edging accented in pale grey/ivory/bone pleather piping. The charcoal wool has a light gauzy check woven throughout; itself with a teensy houndstooth…
leatherette/pleather piping
I have a word of advice for anyone considering putting leatherette piping in a garment. Don’t. There, I think that just about covers it 😉 Haha, I’m kidding… but seriously now, leather/ette detailing is pretty hot right now and adds a smart…
Patched pockets
Just to provide further proof of my predilection for unusual clothing … please allow me to present my new skirt. This skirt is the love-child of four old pairs of jeans. They were a bit battered but in favourite colours,…
Pink Alabama Chanin T-shirt
I’m very happy and pleased that my Mum agreed to let me photograph her wearing her very recently completed hand-dyed-embroidered-and-stitched creation, and to show the pictures here on my blog … thank you so much Mum! This is Mum’s third…
Green pleats, please!
Hello! 🙂 So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green. Definitely far more me 😉 Hoorah for dye!…
