I screen-printed this random murky-coloured block fabric last year, and have finally got around to making it into something. At last! The 5-colour print is my own design; and in fact the dress is my own design too 🙂 Originally I…
Tag: daily outfit
raspberry Alabama Chanin tank dress
I’ve finished a handmade dress. It’s dyed, printed and stitched together entirely by me. This is a fitted tank dress, the pattern is from the book Alabama Studio Sewing + Design, by Natalie Chanin. I dyed shocking pink linen…
a “Norwegian” jacket
I’ve made up my Norwegian souvenir fabric. Pining for the fjords? me? well, maybe just a little 😉 I bought this divinely thick, strong, and sturdy cotton drill in Oslo during our Scandinavian holiday, with dreams of making a boxy, nautically…
pink
I’ve rejigged these strawberry pink jeans into a skirt. I made the jeans two years ago using an Au Bonheur des petites mains pattern courtesy of shams, thank you shams! There’s lots of things I liked about the jeans; they…
cafe au lait bootlegs
New jeans/pants/whatevs. Burda 7863, stretch bengaline from Spotlight. So. I guess that’s about all I have to say! I’ve made this pattern what, nine times now, I think. Speaks volumes. The colour is softly pretty, a nice and easy and inoffensive pale…
a split-backed top
Once upon a time there was a shirt, a man’s shirt. This shirt was superficially unremarkable, but was made out of a wonderful microfibre that had extraordinarily silk-like properties. Soft, ripply, with a quietly glossy sheen, it felt wonderfully cool…
my Milanese Panther dress
Not the real Milanese panther of course which I understand is a very rare animal… I bought this fabric in Milan during our trip there two years ago. I realised after making up my caramel suede from Denmark that, well *blush* all of…
Caramel suede cardigan/jacket
o hello 🙂 I’ve made a suede cardigan for myself, or is it a jacket? The pattern says “jacket” but I tend to think of jackets as being kinda involved, time-consuming things to make, with lining and so forth. While…
