in the Nagano region Hello! We recently spent nearly a month overseas in east Asia, specifically South Korea and Japan. I’ll write a bit more about our trip in a future travel wardrobe post, but for now I’ll just be…
Tag: daily outfit
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…
pool
how beautiful is this fabric?! My daughter Cassie designed this very pretty, inviting and perfectly summery scene and of course her proud mother had to buy some. The name of the print is “public pool”, available in her Spoonflower shop…
pink gingham
hello! I’m pleased that I made productive use of the Christmas break and managed to make a new thing… I used the very last of my “made in 2024” tags in the little breast pocket. Honestly, the dress was actually…
Maldives; a travel wardrobe
hello! So as hinted in my new bathers post just recently, we have been on an absolutely gorgeous holiday to the Maldives… this is our third visit, each time as well as this time staying on Velassaru. I know, I…
Innes nice?
… so I made another thing recently… well two actually, but only one really, in the end. The first was Not Good… Hello Innes dress, and welcome to my wardrobe… a pattern by Homer & Howells. That was 2020 me…
lux trousers and some more random cushions
hello! I’ve made some more things lately… Firstly, some new trousers. I used a new pattern, the Fibremood Lux trousers. Lately I’m more interested in trousers/jeans etc with a flat front and no pleats… and so the pattern piqued my…
new/old denim skirt
hello! I’ve made a new skirt, using all bits and pieces from old denim jeans .. or should that then be an old skirt? Hmmm.. a debatable concept! I like using old textiles to make something different, however it must…
