I’ve made a simple little dress… Now I have to admit that such apparent simplicity is actually the anticlimactic outcome of a long, convoluted sewing-and-unpicking, journey which I’m a little embarrassed to relate. This is one of the failed projects…
Category: sewing
pool
how beautiful is this fabric?! My daughter Cassie designed this very pretty, inviting and perfectly summery scene and of course her proud mother had to buy some. The name of the print is “public pool”, available in her Spoonflower shop…
pink gingham
hello! I’m pleased that I made productive use of the Christmas break and managed to make a new thing… I used the very last of my “made in 2024” tags in the little breast pocket. Honestly, the dress was actually…
2024; a retrospective
Hello! it’s the very last day of the year, which for this blog is the day that I look back on my year of making/creating/wearing and summarise such things… first off, here’s a favourite outfit/photo from each month of the…
Christmas prep
Hello, Christmas makes!! To be honest though my output is quite modest this year, I haven’t gone overboard with the making of Christmas gifts unlike previous years. Just a few little things… I’d mostly made this black felt bunny…
Innes nice?
… so I made another thing recently… well two actually, but only one really, in the end. The first was Not Good… Hello Innes dress, and welcome to my wardrobe… a pattern by Homer & Howells. That was 2020 me…
lux trousers and some more random cushions
hello! I’ve made some more things lately… Firstly, some new trousers. I used a new pattern, the Fibremood Lux trousers. Lately I’m more interested in trousers/jeans etc with a flat front and no pleats… and so the pattern piqued my…
polka dot bathers
Hello! I made some new bathers recently… I’m afraid this is rather boring and predictable but I used the same old pattern I’ve been using for a long long time now and which is sadly no longer available… McCalls…
