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Year: 2022

I made a dress, a cool skirt and three tops; aka I actually used all of my 2022 labels, yay!

31/12/202231/12/2022 Carolynsewing3 Comments on I made a dress, a cool skirt and three tops; aka I actually used all of my 2022 labels, yay!

I’ve made a few new things, thus appropriately using all my “circa 2022” labels, hurrah!  I know, I know, using up labels should NOT be a criteria for making anything, and yet.. and yet… I still felt compelled to do…

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2022; a retrospective

31/12/202202/01/2023 Carolynsewing3 Comments on 2022; a retrospective

It’s the last day of the year! which seems like a pretty good time for reflection and introspection.  I mean, why not?  a blog is as good a place as any for such nonsense  🙂  I’m going to start out…

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have you ever made a dress from a sheet?

24/12/202224/12/2022 CarolynUncategorized1 Comment on have you ever made a dress from a sheet?

… because some of them are really nice, that’s all.  I always secretly hankered for this one to be a dress.  Those extra wide stripes! The design is my own, and I whipped this one up as a sample really,…

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featuring a top and a skirt and some other miscellaneous wearable things

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I’ve made a new little top and skirt, as well as a few other odds and sods …  so here’s the thing. I bought a batch of 20x “circa 2022” labels at the beginning of the year, used these up…

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it’s curtains for you! otherwise titled; why should windows have all the fun?

03/12/202203/12/2022 Carolynsewing6 Comments on it’s curtains for you! otherwise titled; why should windows have all the fun?

This year, my friend Raina gave to me a couple of bags of fabric that she’d been hoarding for years, finally sensibly throwing them out… or should I say.. throwing them my way?  I really should throw out a lot…

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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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