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Why do I sew with striped fabrics?!

01/03/2025 Carolynsewing7 Comments on 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…

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little scrappy cardigan

29/02/202430/06/2024 Carolynknitting5 Comments on little scrappy cardigan

Phew!  My February knitting project was finished in the nick of time!  Honestly now, I’m not sure I’m going to be able to keep up with my resolution of one knitting project per month this year, my hands might not…

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Old things…

17/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Old things…

… this will be the very last of my “old things” posts.  I promise. I’ve done a mammoth sort-through of the photos and I think this is it!  (heaves a sigh of relief…) Firstly, since this is the only garment…

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Weddings, parties, and other special events…

27/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Weddings, parties, and other special events…

… seem to be the only times we ever took any photos of our family.  So thank goodness for those!   I didn’t do a heck of a lot of sewing when I had three tiny children.  I do have…

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Oh, this old thing…

17/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Oh, this old thing…

… and a few more old creations.  (Don’t worry, these are drawing to an inevitable endpoint, as I go forwards through time and eventually wind up at “now”, at which point these posts will finish and you will be seeing…

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Thanks for the memories…

08/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized11 Comments on Thanks for the memories…

…and all I can say that if it wasn’t for Christmas and birthday family get-togethers I would have almost no photos of my children in the clothes I have made them… these photos are all from the albums of our…

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Another trip down memory lane…

31/07/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized6 Comments on Another trip down memory lane…

…  Remember when I said I had only once before made Cassie and myself matching clothes? Well this is Cassie’s dress, that was made from the leftover scraps of a dress I had made myself.  Her little dress, made using…

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Featuring small versions of Tim and Cassie…

23/07/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized10 Comments on Featuring small versions of Tim and Cassie…

Whizzing back a few years now… and here are some more of the little outfits I made for my children when they were small.  These were “good” outfits, but of course I used to dress my children in good outfits…

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