… seem to be the only times we ever took any photos of our family. So thank goodness for those! I didn’t do a heck of a lot of sewing when I had three tiny children. I do have…
Tag: dress
Purple sheath dress; 6 different ways
I made this silk hessian dress using Burda 8511 about a year and a half ago and yes, this dress has appeared here in a number of mixes already. I have found the simplicity of the design to be a…
Another trip down memory lane…
… Remember when I said I had only once before made Cassie and myself matching clothes? Well this is Cassie’s dress, that was made from the leftover scraps of a dress I had made myself. Her little dress, made using…
Pattern Magic, revisited
This is my second attempt at this pattern; the design from page 10 of Pattern Magic by Tomoko Nakamichi; my first was here. I loved the design, but unfortunately that first dress was kinda disastrous. Firstly, I didn’t love the…
Oo la la
I’ve made a new dress for winter! This fabric, a sort of very roughly spun and woven silk, with some very stiffish almost stick-like pieces woven into it, was one of my Christmas presents; that I bought so the children could…
Clad in plaid
I deemed today cool enough to wear one of ma newbies; a plaid shirtdress made using pattern no. 111 from Burdastyle magazine 05/2010. Naturally with a one or two little adaptions… The brushed cotton is stash fabric I’ve had for…
A new sundress
I made a new sundress for myself… using the summer-weight cotton fabric I had bought during our shopping day out in Tokyo with Yoshimi and Novita. Japanese fabric! This now is one of my wearable souvenirs from our trip…! The…
The colours of Valentine’s Day
I’ve been off colour for a few days, and feeling blue… but I’m not complaining, as things are definitely looking more rosy today… This evening my husband and I strolled down to the river together for a picnic under the paperbarks to…
