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As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress

28/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress

Last up: Cassie! and I made a dress for Cassie for Christmas this year; this is the loose drape tank-top from drape drape by Hisako Sato.  I used a thin cotton jersey, printed in an interesting fractured pixels design of…

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White Christmas; Craig’s Christmas shirt

27/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized21 Comments on White Christmas; Craig’s Christmas shirt

I made a shirt for Craig for Christmas too; and used er, hehehe; Burda 7767 again!  I bought some very nice white cotton broadcloth from Spotlight; and the buttons are also from Spotlight. Actually, this shirt is a response to…

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Stripey Sam; Sam’s Christmas shirt

26/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on Stripey Sam; Sam’s Christmas shirt

Next up; Sam! and I made a shirt for his Christmas pressie too.  Ohhhh yes, I have been a very very busy bee lately! I used Burda 7767, and blue and white striped fabric from the Fabric Store, Melbourne…  bought during…

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Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt

25/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt

I made a shirt for our eldest son for a Christmas pressie… using Burda 7767 (surprise!!) and some lovely deeply sludgy, purply-chocolate linen bought from the Fabric Store in Melbourne during our September visit there, and I found the perfect…

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the Wolery

24/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized27 Comments on the Wolery

After my brothers and I had all moved out of home and started our own families; I started a rather non-rigid, and not annual, tradition of making a Christmas ornament for each of us… just something silly and small, not…

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Looking sharp! Craig’s birthday shirt

22/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized61 Comments on Looking sharp! Craig’s birthday shirt

It is my husband’s birthday, and I have made a shirt for him! I used my favourite my only! men’s shirt pattern Burda 7767, adjusted for a perfect custom fit; and a gorgeously high quality, striped shirting cotton from Tessuti’s in Melbourne,…

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Blood Orange top; 6 different ways

19/12/201219/06/2016 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized22 Comments on Blood Orange top; 6 different ways

Hey y’all peeps. I’ve been having a play around with my blood orange Vogue 1247 top… trying out different ways to wear it. So… I might have said this before, once, or twice, or twenty times  😉  but I absolutely love brainstorming in my…

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LBS

17/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized28 Comments on LBS

The amount of Christmas “creating” going on around here has been insane lately!  I have been sewing like an absolute madwoman… !  but this Little Black Skirt is not a part of that.  This is a sorta urgent extra!    …

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