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Navy stripes

13/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized53 Comments on Navy stripes

It was Sam’s birthday a few days back and I made a shirt for him.  The fabric is from Spotlight, a medium-weight cotton twill in a heavy cream colour with navy blue stripes.  Ahem, stripes again, I know; but hey.  It’s…

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Browning a couple of things

10/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized53 Comments on Browning a couple of things

Remember my Sew Bossy dress, below?  It was very… sweet, wasn’t it?  I mean, I wish I could wear really pretty things like that, but I think I cannot!  But I thought it had promise, it just needed de-twee-ing. before…

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White Bombshell

07/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized157 Comments on White Bombshell

G’day beach babes!  OK so I admit it is winter here in Australia now.  I can explain… The very clever Heather of Closet Case Files has dropped a literal Bombshell on the sewing world with  this, her inaugural swimsuit pattern,…

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Navy and white striped Tshirt; 6 different ways

05/06/201319/06/2016 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on Navy and white striped Tshirt; 6 different ways

A striped Tshirt seems to be the wardrobe staple of a certain kind of girl, a very stylish and chic kind of girl, that I think is not very like me.  I mean, I like to think of myself as…

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photo maisonette

03/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on photo maisonette

Hello! My friend Yoshimi and I have a new venture; photo maisonette, a daily visual diary of our two different lives in our two different worlds in Japan and Australia.  The new blog is inspired by the wonderful site 3191 Miles Apart, a…

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paper doll project

03/06/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on paper doll project

I’m still doodling about with my paper doll project!   I didn’t put any pages in my blog during me-made May because it seemed kinda overkill, but I think for the sake of having it all here…  If you love…

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red

31/05/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized54 Comments on red

The photo mini challenge for today, the last day of me-made May is “red”. min 6C, max 19C, fine and sunny Details: Jacket; Burdastyle magazine 08/2010, 113, chocolate brown faux leather, details and my review of this pattern here Jeans;…

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Boring black Tshirt

30/05/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized29 Comments on Boring black Tshirt

The penultimate day of me-made May, and I have a post planned to spew out some vitriol reflect on my experiences.  Only kidding there.  I have no vitriol, of course.  Well, very very little  😉 hehe, but seriously, I am…

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