Today; another blast from the past… When Tim was about eighteen months old and had become a brand new older brother, I made him a backpack, using a pattern from one of those wonderful TopKids magazines (very sadly discontinued). It…
Vogue 8333, a wearable muslin
I have finally finished my muslin of Vogue 8333, a bit late for the RTW jacket sew-along, but meh. It’s done. I will wear this thing. I like it with the sleeves folded up like this, and I like the…
Customised nails
What to do, what to do… I saw this extremely yummy shade of nail varnish in the latest Vogue magazine and felt it was just the thing! Really wanted to have it… Tres beautiful, no? But the blurb described it…
An un-stylish blogger writes about Vogue 8333
I didn’t intend to take a photo of today’s outfit, as it was one that I threw together with no intention of looking stylish or put-together. Purely randomly chosen things. And I ended up being perversely happy with it. You…
Deep Scarlet socks
A pair of sockies hasn’t been seen here on the blog for a while, although actually I finished these right at the beginning of March, and then got mired down in the me-made March maelstrom and sort of forgot about…
Billowy black shirt, with skulls
I’ve made a new shirt. But I can’t do any reviews, because this shirt is based on not one pattern, not even two patterns, but three patterns. A conglomeration of patterns. The united states of patterns. You’ve heard of a…
An early project…
Once I mentioned here one of the earliest things I made that I still have, a pincushion. And I thought maybe it deserved a post of its own as it is so funny to me to look at it now!…
Fool’s Gold
Last night we went to an April Fool’s party, dress code: well of course, something to do with “fool”! So I remembered this skirt that I made about three years ago… guess what I went dressed as? Oh, yeah, the…
