hello! I’ve made a chic (I hope) new jacket… and in such a pretty colour, I’m completely in love. Guava pink? Strawberry icecream pink? Sherbie pink? Coral? Ham pink? haha. Whichever, I really adore it and feel like it’s one…
Category: sewing
a cosy new dress and a backpack
hello! long time no see! I’ve been very busy lately, being a diligent little jet setter and living out of one suitcase for an entire month … I do have a travel wardrobe post planned but it will take me…
some new things…
hello! I’ve made some new things recently… firstly, some new winter pyjamas. 🙂 I used my usual Closet Core patterns Carolyn pattern for the bottoms, and for the top I used a pattern adapted from a Burda pattern, just a…
“cool bunny” T-shirts
Hello! For the Easter just gone by I wanted to give something to my three little grandsons… chocolate has been ruled out by the parents and so I had to think of something else. I decided upon this! As a…
dazzling dazzle
hello! I made a fun new little dress… this is the new Fibremood Dazzle pattern, which is actually a top pattern but I lengthened it to be a dress, simply because I had enough of this gorgeous fabric to do…
a purple mini and a striped tee
in the Nagano region Hello! We recently spent nearly a month overseas in east Asia, specifically South Korea and Japan. I’ll write a bit more about our trip in a future travel wardrobe post, but for now I’ll just be…
water lily dress, a raincoat, and a stripey shirt
hello! I’ve been making a few more things lately… first up; a dress! I bought this screen printed linen a few years ago from the Injalak Arts Centre, the design is Mandem (Water Lily) by the indigenous artist Eva Nganjmirra.…
Why do I sew with striped fabrics?!
rhetorical question, don’t mind me. I actually love stripes, even though when I do sew with them I feel inextricably compelled to pin each and every stripe. It’s ok. A small amount of suffering is acceptable when it leads to…
