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Year: 2015

outfits for small boys

06/12/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on outfits for small boys

As promised to myself; I’ve made four more tiny little outfits, this time for four little baby boys.  Tomorrow I’ll be sending these off to Tiny Sparks and they will be available to parents of sick and/or premature babies upon leaving the hospital.…

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tie-dye cardigan

03/12/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized28 Comments on tie-dye cardigan

I’ve made another little cardigan… the last, I promise! for at least a little while!  I didn’t really need another one but I said I’d thought of yet another little way the construction of this design could be improved? naturally I just…

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Stash Box, plus miniature clothing for tiny people

30/11/201528/01/2018 CarolynUncategorized140 Comments on Stash Box, plus miniature clothing for tiny people

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.…

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ivory Ruby

24/11/201509/02/2017 CarolynUncategorized31 Comments on 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…

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tie-front cardigan from a Tshirt pattern; a brief tutorial

18/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on 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…

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teal dress

14/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized34 Comments on 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…

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brick bathers

11/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on 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…

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an Alabama Chanin project; “Magdalena Dusk”

07/11/201515/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized33 Comments on 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…

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