A day of colourlessness (ness, ness) is often followed by a more colourful day, in my world. And today is a bad hair day, sorry. Thus the pony. I am getting my hair cut this afternoon, and I am so…
The two things together
I’m not sure if this outfit is too severe. Perhaps. But this is the thing; I wanted to see these two pieces both together as they were designed to go with each other. Both being from the same designer. Japanese…
Canary yellow suit-y thing
Digging into the archives… This is a photo of a suit-y sort of a thing that I made to wear to my brother’s wedding, twenty years ago… actually I still have this outfit and it still fits like a dream…
Scrap dress
You know how after a sewing project is finished you nearly always end up with scraps, sometimes of such a decent size you can’t toss them out… but not enough to do anything with on their own. So sometimes I…
All dressed up with no place to go…
This dress is sooo cool and light and easy. It’s funny to think this was last year’s Christmas dress… it’s done pretty well. Perhaps getting a bit “round the house-ish” but still quite nice. So here I am today, all…
Sam’s shirt
This is the shirt I made for our youngest for a Christmas present. The funny thing about making this shirt was that I cut it out and made it up with absolutely no attempt at secrecy whatsoever, and it was…
2010 in quick review
I should have done this yesterday, but hey, better late than never… Last night I sat back and had a quick nostalgic roll-through of the blog and came to the happy conclusion 2010 was a very good year for me; a sprinkling…
Cassie’s dress
This is the dress I made our daughter for her Christmas present this year. I know her tastes very well and could picture exactly the dress I wanted to make for her, but was quite anxious about how to go about…
