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Month: December 2023

2023; a retrospective

31/12/202301/01/2024 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized10 Comments on 2023; a retrospective

Hello!  It’s the last day of 2023, and I’m feeling miraculously motivated to look back upon my year of making, and see what I made, how it worked out and generally do a bit of retrospective musing on the things…

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Christmas dress! hot choccy treats and some cute little kiddie things

28/12/2023 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized2 Comments on Christmas dress! hot choccy treats and some cute little kiddie things

I’ve made some new things… … including a new Christmas Day dress for myself… the latest subtraction from ye good old stash.  So this new dress was made with a piece of lovely border print stuff bought in the closing…

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check it out…

20/12/2023 Carolynsewing6 Comments on check it out…

I bought this beautiful, slightly crinkly linen gingham from Japan a few years ago, during our last visit there and it was always intended to be a Vogue 2900… I frequently jump and haa about a particular fabric and which…

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an assortment of sewn things

11/12/2023 Carolynsewing6 Comments on an assortment of sewn things

hello!  Once again I am presenting an odd assortment of disparate things made recently… Items 1 and 2; two completely identical new Booragoon tops.  Both from a pink cotton jersey from stash, originally Spotlight from ages ago.  I’m wearing one…

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Lainey’s wedding dress

02/12/202303/12/2023 Carolynsewing6 Comments on Lainey’s wedding dress

Hello!  It’s been such a long time since I mentioned it no doubt everyone has forgotten; but at the beginning of this year I made a wedding dress for my daughter-in-law Lainey! It was quite a journey!  first we went…

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