I’ve just been updating a few bits and bobs in my wardrobe… when I get bored or dissatisfied with a particular item but it’s still in perfectly good nick or I still kinda like it because of a good shape/style…
Tag: dyeing
raspberry/navy Alabama Chanin tank top
I’ve finally finished my latest Alabama Chanin project… Below is how it appeared on this blog previously…? (shudder) well, that dress has undergone extensive renovation over the past five months and now at last, I am quite satisfied. I received…
blue ray
Winter is officially over here, so right on target I’ve finished a wintery little dress. 🙂 I spent some quality time with my dyepot, dyeing bright blue corduroy in four different moody blues for the colour blocking. This is my second version of…
Further Alabama Chanin-ing
Hello! I am getting started on my next Alabama Chanin project. Yes, an authentically executed Alabama Chanin creation is a big time commitment but I really enjoyed making my 3-piece set and it is nice to have a hand-held project…
Green pleats, please!
Hello!  🙂 So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green. Definitely far more me 😉  Hoorah for dye!…
White trees and buttons
I’ve sewn up my white trees fabric… into a top! I drafted it myself but it is a pretty simple silhouette; basically a big oversized T-shape, with something interesting in the form of the completely open top edge. Â The top…
New (not) khaki leggings
Hello 🙂 I’m still renovating my wardrobe… and can I just say, beige leggings, hmmm. (shudder) I’d taken a hearty dislike to mine over recent weeks. But they still had some wear in them. Wasteth not, wanteth not. It was really…
I dye…
… literally. I’m dyeing heaps of stuff lately. My ultramarine corduroy skirt. I was bored with it, and didn’t wear it at all during me-made May even though it was season appropriate. That is A Sign. I dunno, I’d gone…
