Handmade by Carolyn

Thoughts on sewing, knitting, and looking my best

  • Home
  • about me
  • my patterns

Category: sewing

the dog bed dress

10/09/201721/09/2017 Carolynsewing64 Comments on the dog bed dress

Hmmm, a totally unromantic, slightly ridiculous and definitely a whaaaat?! title for a dress but to my mind it was just the obvious choice! See, when we knew Clara was coming along I looked out Sienna’s old dog mattresses (yes, doing…

Read More→

Sydney jacket

20/08/201721/08/2017 Carolynsewing57 Comments on Sydney jacket

have you guys seen COLOSSAL… ? Bet you can’t guess where I am here…   Yeah, I know, it’s a tough one.   Some locations are just so obscure and far off the beaten track, but I do like to…

Read More→

boatin’, campin’, bikin’ and hikin’ stoof

09/08/201710/08/2017 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized54 Comments on boatin’, campin’, bikin’ and hikin’ stoof

We’ve just come back from a holiday in Alaska, USA and British Columbia, Canada; had the most AWESOME-est time of course! but more about that later…  I made a few bits and pieces to fill in some gaps in the…

Read More→

french navy forsythe dress x2 and some tights

08/07/201723/08/2017 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized37 Comments on french navy forsythe dress x2 and some tights

hello!  I’ve made a couple of new dresses lately… followers of my ootd blog may have seen these pop up over there already.  Remember back in January I made up the free Orla dress pattern designed by Sarah May of French…

Read More→

a red wine pinafore

03/07/2017 Carolynsewing45 Comments on a red wine pinafore

I’m wearing a new … thing. Is it a dress? Dungarees? An overall…?  we used to call these pinafores. Or a pinny.  I think it’s pretty cute anyway 🙂 I used to dress my children in corduroy dungarees when they…

Read More→

more liberty lingerie… and why do I make my own?

30/06/201730/06/2017 Carolynsewing29 Comments on more liberty lingerie… and why do I make my own?

On the “news” * the other night they had a little segment where Kmart introduced their new range of $5 bras, which is insanely cheap… and all over again I got to thinking about why I make my own in the…

Read More→

white Charlie caftan

21/06/201724/06/2017 Carolynsewing21 Comments on white Charlie caftan

Seems like aaaages since I was at the beach for these photos! and I can remember it was a glorious 30C that day.  Right now it’s still sunny but getting pretty nippy here in Perth; and joyously frolicking in the…

Read More→

little floral dress; donna karan for vogue

19/06/201722/06/2017 Carolynsewing24 Comments on little floral dress; donna karan for vogue

I’ve made this new dress! every year my dear friends give me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday… it’s taken me a little while but I finally got around to spending it and making my birthday dress! Pattern; Vogue…

Read More→

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 29 30 31 … 41 Next
Copyright © All rights reserved.
Blog Kit by WP Charms
Switch to desktop version
↑
↓