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bathers

17/10/202515/10/2025 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized5 Comments on bathers

Hello!  I made a new pair of bathers for myself… and I’m chuckling to myself that I’ve gone kinda Bay Watch this year.  Is Bay Watch even a part of the collective consciousness any more?  hmmm I could be aging…

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dazzling dazzle

27/04/2025 Carolynsewing1 Comment on 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…

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a checquered tale of a checkered dress

18/01/2025 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized2 Comments on a checquered tale of a checkered dress

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…

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little sludgy cardigan

31/07/202431/07/2024 Carolynknitting, Uncategorized3 Comments on little sludgy cardigan

…once again slithering in under the wire on the last day of the month with my knit-of-the-month!  For July’s effort I made a new little cardigan.  This is yarn that I bought during our hiking trip to Italy 12 years…

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a simple little frock

01/03/202301/03/2023 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized6 Comments on a simple little frock

It’s been a while, but rest assured I’m still making/sewing like mad!  just that I can’t show anything at all for a little bit yet… but I can show this! just a simple little summer dress but better than nothing…

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bucket hats and tights and a big big bag…

27/08/202229/08/2022 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized4 Comments on bucket hats and tights and a big big bag…

Oh hello!  Those blue blue skies are making me so happy right now, as most of the past month has been more like this: Oh yay, storm clouds, yes you’re making me happy too… not. I’ve been making lots of…

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millennial holiday

30/03/202230/03/2022 Carolynsewing4 Comments on millennial holiday

I made a new dress for myself.. using this super cute cotton … it’s called Millennial Holiday, which I have to confess gave me a real laugh!  But isn’t it beautiful.. those happy, sunny and joyful colours, gorgeous girls wandering…

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hand drawn check

03/03/2022 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized4 Comments on hand drawn check

Isn’t this fabric totally gorgeous?!!  I love it so much!  I still have a huge affinity to pink, despite that I’m not “supposed” to wear it, whatever that means.. well, if it makes you happy!  And this little group of…

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