Recently I was asked by Two Blue Birdies; a Melbourne based, online fabric and haberdashery store to review their Stash Box. What is the Stash Box, you might ask? Well, it is like a little mystery box of fabric and haberdashery goodies.…
Month: November 2015
ivory Ruby
Hello! I’ve made a new slip; which looks superficially rather plain and boring, belying the hours of of care that has been lavished upon it, haha! Bias hemlines! aaaaugh! *insert Munchian scream here* Pattern; the Ruby slip, designed by Sheryll…
tie-front cardigan from a Tshirt pattern; a brief tutorial
Remember recently I made a little paprika cardigan? and I wasn’t super happy with my construction technique of the fronts and could visualise a far better method of getting that front edge nice and neat … well, of course I could not…
teal dress
New dress! Well actually it’s not really new at all, in fact I made it barely a year ago… it just feels like a brand spanking new thing somehow just because it’s a brand spanking new colour. I thought some…
brick bathers
It’s a yearly ritual; summer approaching, new bathers. I’m very hard on my bathers. I hardly ever wash the salt water or chlorine out; they get scrumpled up in a wet, sandy, salty towel, left in the boot of the car, dried…
an Alabama Chanin project; “Magdalena Dusk”
The very lovely Lisa, of Lisa’s Carolina Handmade very kindly sent to me some really beautiful and special fabric; some 100% organic cotton jersey from the Alabama Chanin store in the United States. How sweet is that?!!! I’m so grateful…
paprika cardigan
I took some time out from making something far more time-consuming and complicated, ahem Alabama Chanin, cough cough…. ooo did I once say I would never get addicted to Alabama Chanin??? yaas, going back on my word, guilty as charged!!…
