I desired to make for myself something quick and easy and selfishly frivolous… and a Tshirt dress is very quick and easy, yes? The fabric, a stretchy panne velvet from Fabulous Fabrics, is very lush; smooth and slippery and glides over the skin,…
Tag: daily outfit
On mittens, and making time for sewing
Rootling around in my winter woollies; I realised that I had never devoted a post before now to these mittens. I knitted them yonks ago: probably when the children were really tiny, and probably using leftovers from one or another…
Operation Raincoat
Warning: distinctly un-humble and boastful post to follow… I have made this; my first ever raincoat… :0 and I am thrilled!!!!! with how it turned out! Making a raincoat is one of the scary things I have always wondered was…
Mustard cable-knit cowl
As those clear and cold as crystal winter mornings descend upon us, and the desire to swathe oneself in warm and cosy woolies; I have finished knitting a neck-warmer thingamy-bob. I used Rowan belle organic dk, in shade 00010. This…
Paris in the spring; such a marvellous thing
9 June Self drafted dress, Metalicus petticoat, Vogue jacket in red silk hessian, also a self drafted Tshirt underneath (not seen) for some extra warmth. This photo above was taken by Craig on the Pont Neuf in the setting sun.…
Gadding about
4 June Here I am about to pay a visit to my pal George Clooney in Lake Como… just kidding, hehe. I don’t know who lives in this beautiful villa in Varenna, Lake Como; but the white iron lacework gate…
Tripping
Me made May has been successfully completed, and the majorest challenge for me this time round was putting pictures in the Flickr group… A monumental difficulty when one does not have a reliable computer! Thank goodness for Craig whose expertise…
Green
Today’s mini photo challenge for the me-made May group is Green. Yah, a fairly unoriginal backdrop but that is all I have time for today. I hope my ultra-smashing outfit more than makes up for it, haha. So, talking of;…
