Hey peeps! No photo today… This is a quick note that we are off on a trek for a week and I’ll be away from my blog. In fact away from all electronic stimuli, totally, 100%. Yippee!! We’ll be walking…
Menswear; linen shirt no. 3
Here is my husband’s new shirt. It was made using Burda 7767 (again, such a great pattern!) with the fit variations I perfected making the last shirt. I altered the collar size slightly; the pattern comes with three collar variations…
“Moody Milkmaid” … refashioned
Call me crazy. I am crazy. I’m insane. Sometimes I swear I am a complete and utter lunatic. I took my photos this morning and posted about my skirt (see below). I even posted on Wardrobe Refashion. I kept looking…
“Moody Milkmaid” skirt
I know I’m not the only one to be completely inspired by the Celine spring/summer 2010 collection. A deceptively bare collection, almost monastic in its simplicity but oh-so stylish and oh-so now. Minus the fussy design details and opulent prints…
Knotted rope necklace; a tutorial
Even though we are technically well into autumn, with a forecast of 32C today it’s still feeling a lot like summer. Not counting last week’s storm, that is. The past week has been absolutely glorious. So everyone is still dressing…
An intense shot of colour
COLOUR!! Get out your sunnies! This saturation of colour I’m wearing today was a vaguely imagined “hope for” when I made this skirt. I’ve really progressed in my fashion choices since I started writing this blog. I’m challenging myself to…
Felted wall hanging
Another felted thing. I made this last year some time. This is hanging on the wall in our front room, to be admired by visitors (hehe). I really enjoyed the process of making this because by this time I had…
Pattern Magic; toile 3, “detsubori” no shatsu
The latest toile from this excellent book. I think this is a fantastic book if you are a reasonably advanced seamstress who wishes to learn something about pattern manipulation and drafting. I’ve never done this sort of thing before and…
