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a special lace dress

11/10/2025 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized5 Comments on a special lace dress

hello!  Recently my lovely niece J married her long-time man and so of course I had to make a new dress for myself for the occasion…  I was vaguely toying with the idea of shopping for fabric before I remembered…

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it’s curtains for you! otherwise titled; why should windows have all the fun?

03/12/202203/12/2022 Carolynsewing6 Comments on it’s curtains for you! otherwise titled; why should windows have all the fun?

This year, my friend Raina gave to me a couple of bags of fabric that she’d been hoarding for years, finally sensibly throwing them out… or should I say.. throwing them my way?  I really should throw out a lot…

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a pretty outfit (cielo and sixtine)

05/07/202003/09/2020 Carolynsewing7 Comments on a pretty outfit (cielo and sixtine)

So I made an oh-so pretty, fluttery, flower-strewn outfit of the most perfectly spring-worthy persuasion! but wait…  am I not currently still on the downwards slope to the dark dank pit of winter?  well yes, so we are just barely…

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I sewed selflessly

21/04/202022/04/2020 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized4 Comments on I sewed selflessly

So, I sewed some stuff! Item A; a dress for Mum to wear to Cassie’s wedding… I started out with Burda style 09/2019; 109 because I thought the sleeve cuff really lovely; however I ran up a muslin – actually…

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