I have made some rather daggy baggy shorts, but don’t worry. Style has not flown out the window. After today, these are my new summer PJ bottoms! I used a too-small-for-anything-else piece of polycotton, crazily colourful and wildly patterned; given…
HongKong seams and the hemline
Hong Kong seams are a tidy and very handsome way to finish raw edges… but what happens at the hemline? The seam gets folded up on itself twice, and if you are working with a flimsy fabric and especially if you…
Khaki military shirt; 6 different ways
Oooh, it’s been a while since I did one of these posts… which is silly since I do get a big kick out of these myself. Playing in one’s wardrobe, the bestest play a grown-up girl can have, no? Sometimes…
Of the palest blue
I still have one or two really lovely pieces of fabric given to me for pressies last Christmas, as well as from my birthday last year (blush) Beautiful fabrics that I have been too chicken to take the scissors to.…
Handwoven “rag-rug” placemats
Another set of hand-woven and -stitched items from my teenage years… and I cannot believe I have so far overlooked these very frequently used items in my documentation process! :O To the best of my memory, this is probably my very…
Hand-woven
Every now and again I come across another handmade item in my house that I have not yet documented on my blog here… This is a set of serviettes, handwoven by me! Yes, I have dabbled in weaving, in a…
Welcome to the fold
In a further small step towards overcoming scissor-phobia in the face of precious fabrics; I have made a new tunic top. This is the top from Vogue 1309, and I have made it in a hand-painted silk dupion from Fabulous…
Just add water
I thought I had timed things pretty well for this one, heading out to the beach on the first day of school term, a day when I knew it would be utterly deserted. Instead I royally stuffed up by rocking…
