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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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winter white Dyron hoodie

03/10/2025 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on winter white Dyron hoodie

Hello!  I’ve made a new hoodie for myself, and think it’s rather beautiful if I say so myself.  Many years ago, when I started this blog, I would sometimes berate myself for being scared of wearing colourful clothing.  I tried…

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charcoal Sienna jacket

16/08/2025 Carolynsewing3 Comments on charcoal Sienna jacket

hello! I’ve made another Sienna jacket, yes, hot on the heels of the last one.  I realise this is a weird thing to do but I’m well known for doing weird things so it’s just the norm at this point.…

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pink Sienna jacket

01/08/2025 Carolynsewing4 Comments on pink Sienna jacket

hello!  I’ve made a chic (I hope) new jacket… and in such a pretty colour, I’m completely in love.  Guava pink?  Strawberry icecream pink? Sherbie pink?  Coral? Ham pink?  haha.  Whichever, I really adore it and feel like it’s one…

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hiking in Italy/Norway; a travel wardrobe

26/07/2025 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized7 Comments on hiking in Italy/Norway; a travel wardrobe

hello!  We have very recently returned from a long hiking holiday, which involved some clever packing of seasonal extremes into a small suitcase with a 15kg limit.   Challenge accepted!  I shall now proceed to discuss my travel wardrobe and…

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a cosy new dress and a backpack

20/07/202520/07/2025 Carolynsewing, UncategorizedLeave a Comment on a cosy new dress and a backpack

hello!  long time no see!  I’ve been very busy lately, being a diligent little jet setter and living out of one suitcase for an entire month …  I do have a travel wardrobe post planned but it will take me…

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a Minä Perhonen dress and some new clogs

28/05/202528/05/2025 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on a Minä Perhonen dress and some new clogs

hello!  I’ve made a whole new outfit recently… it’s not so often that I can present a new, head-to-toe handmade outfit like this!   I bought this Minä Perhonen hessian on a previous trip to Tokyo, and after a suitable…

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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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