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Month: November 2022

in which I make yet another tartan thingie…

27/11/202229/11/2022 Carolynsewing2 Comments on in which I make yet another tartan thingie…

Hello!  I’ve made a new.. blouse? jacket?  the more open-ended “top” would be the least controversial, I suppose! This is the new Rhonda pattern by Fibremood… I always tend to go for the weirdest pattern in any collection because that’s…

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bikini washing bag

20/11/2022 Carolynsewing3 Comments on bikini washing bag

… the zip on my old lingerie washing bag finally gave up the ghost, so I whipped up a new one!  Perforated sports fabric has been in Le Stash for years, I originally bought a long length of this from…

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orange yoga girl

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Remember my pink yoga girls dress? well I made an orange one too!  I used the Nerida Hanson smock dress pattern.. only this one is made (almost) exactly to the pattern with no variations!  shock horror, I know…  how often…

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oxen

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How cute is this multicoloured “oxen” print?  I saw it on Spoonflower and immediately fell in love.  I bought a little of the cotton sateen last year.  Or maybe even the year before?  Yes, it has indeed been in the…

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I crocheted a hat!

11/11/202211/11/2022 Carolynknitting, Uncategorized2 Comments on I crocheted a hat!

… and it’s been a long time in the making too! I originally bought this raffia in Okadaya in Shinjuku, and subsequently this pattern book in a newsagent in the Kanazawa train station, back in 2019, pictured in this post…

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pink and blue magnolias

02/11/202208/11/2022 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized2 Comments on pink and blue magnolias

Hello!   Here is another little sundress I made more recently actually… just in late July if I recall correctly.  I was so excited and getting ready for spring and it seemed like the perfect little spring-time thing… little did…

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