I finished a new dress… I love this new little thing; we are expecting more really hot weather around here and I wanted some more really cool floaty things that can waft around my body, if not picking up any actual…
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A walk in the park
A day of colourlessness (ness, ness) is often followed by a more colourful day, in my world. And today is a bad hair day, sorry. Thus the pony. I am getting my hair cut this afternoon, and I am so…
Scrap dress
You know how after a sewing project is finished you nearly always end up with scraps, sometimes of such a decent size you can’t toss them out… but not enough to do anything with on their own. So sometimes I…
All dressed up with no place to go…
This dress is sooo cool and light and easy. It’s funny to think this was last year’s Christmas dress… it’s done pretty well. Perhaps getting a bit “round the house-ish” but still quite nice. So here I am today, all…
Cassie’s dress
This is the dress I made our daughter for her Christmas present this year. I know her tastes very well and could picture exactly the dress I wanted to make for her, but was quite anxious about how to go about…
Vogue 8555; a pattern review
(shamefaced) I took some more photos of the dress; inside because the ones Craig took on Christmas Day were a tad blustery. Yeees, don’t know if you can tell or not but I was being windblasted about mercilessly and those…
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas, all! Wishing you a wonderfully happy and peaceful day together with your families and friends! Details: Dress; Vogue 8555, with a bodice front of my own design, and added petticoat and waist tie, printed cotton Shoes; Sandler, had for many…
New life for an old polo Tshirt
Dipping into the ol’ bag of toss-outs I took out an old polo Tshirt of my husband’s. He never wears it anymore, but the fabric is quite OK if not super duper beautiful or anything… It is made of a…
