I love working out convoluted construction puzzles in the process of sewing something and this new dress ticked that box very nicely. It looks kinda plain upon first glance, but it’s actually based upon a very unusual twisted design by Anita,…
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Mississippi Avenue
I’ve made a little sundress for myself 🙂 in very fine, light handkerchief-grade linen from Fabulous Fabrics, deep browny/olive green. I asked my husband how to describe the colour and he replied immediately “Sherman tank”, haha. Hmmm! I’ve been told a…
fractal
I’ve made a weird patched dress using twelve old Tshirts of my boys’. I know it’s bizarre and crazy and probably a little bit ugly but I totally love it! I’m constantly pinning patchwork-y and randomly asymmetric things. I’m actually very inspired by and…
watercolour silk dress
I’ve made a new dress 🙂 Every year, my friends give me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday; aaaah! they know me so well…! 🙂 and last year I spent it on this gorgeous, water-colour-y silk charmeuse. And have…
Cassie’s terracotta dress
I made this belated birthday present for Cassie; we recently went on a girly shopping expedition together for her birthday present and spent hours browsing, looking at pretty things, chatting, having hot chocolate and enjoying ourselves! we had lots of…
Red dress; 6 different ways
It’s been a while since I did one of these!  I don’t really have deliberate dress-up sessions to test out my clothes’ versatility any more, but it’s still interesting for me to look back and get a general overview of just…
dress of plastic splattered linen
I’ve made a summery little dress for myself. This is dress F from the Japanese pattern book Stylish Dress Book, by Yoshiko Tsukiori. I’ve made this pattern up once before here, and that polka dot dress is still in…
red gingham
… new dress! I feel like I’ve been wearing the same little summer dresses over and over and over. Not that there’s anything wrong with that! because I like them all 🙂 but a few of my standbys are…
