I did a big clean-out of my wardrobe on the weekend. Sounds silly, but cleaning out one’s wardrobe is an occasion accompanied by soul-searching. We identify so much with our clothes; throwing out old garments is often throwing out…
Tag: daily outfit
Blue bunches
Next up in my Japanese pattern book experiments… When I saw this top in Pattern Magic 3, by Tomoko Nakamichi, I nicknamed it the “bunches” top. Y’know because the other one on this same page was the “ponytail” top (not…
Wearing a triangle
First impressions can be deceiving. And one’s first impressions of the “Wearing a Triangle” design from Pattern Magic 2 might just be that it is one of the least wearable designs in the book. That was my own naive silly…
Wave-y orange welts
I made a little sundress. First impressions are that this is just a very plain little thing with minimal detailing. Note … first impressions. The apparent plain-ness is intentional because I wanted for the one and only detail to…
Turning old jeans into a skirt…
… I decided it was high time for another refashion since I still have a small mountain of perfectly good fabric in the form of old clothing sitting in my stash. eep! Do you remember these jeans? They had…
Pattern Magic 3; ponytail top B
I’ve made an interesting little top… This from the marvellous book Pattern Magic 3 by Tomoko Nakamichi. I’ve nicknamed it my “ponytail” top (version B), because of the way the pieces are pulled together, bunched up and held together…
Do you like big pockets…?
… if so then this is the skirt for you! I have never seen pockets to rival these, ever. I knew (intellectually) the pockets were big by the picture on the pattern envelope, but the (realistic) first sight of the…
A weepy day…
… not because it is the last day of self-stitched September natch, which would ordinarily make it a day of yay!-ness. No, today is the last day of school for my son Sam and we attended a mother/son service together…
