At this time of year the sky is this intense ultramarine blue and the grasses are dryly yellowing until they are crackling underfoot, as always the landscape is everlastingly fascinating. Nature has a perfection in her colour palette that is daily an…
Tag: Fabulous fabrics
To dryclean or not to dryclean, that is the question
On the weekend I wore this to a wedding reception… (sorry, didn’t get a picture with my hair up and my make-up all done, this is the old photo from when I blogged about it previously and I did look…
Australia Day
Today is Australia Day, and everyone here has their own personal ideal way to spend this day, depending on their age and general level of wildness. How am I celebrating Australia Day? Well, first thing this morning my husband…
My husband gave me flowers…
Actually he gave these to me a few days ago and they’ve been sitting on our kitchen bench looking fresh, optimistic and cheerful and brightening up my days with that particularly intense clarity of simple colour, that gerberas are so…
Lacy “tablecloth” skirt
For quite some time I’ve wanted to make myself a skirt out of an old crocheted or lace tablecloth, and with this in mind I’ve searched op-shops for some suitable candidate to chop up. Not only didn’t I find any…
Bleached crinkly cotton
I was on the verge of throwing this skirt out, or re-fashioning it (I am getting so into this re-fashioning it’s not funny, I think it’s becoming an obsession with me) because I ripped it the last time I wore…
Heather purple dress, part 3
So, now for the final installment of the making of this dress. At this point it’s just a bit of finishing off to go; sewing the lining to the zip tape, and doing the hem. It doesn’t sound like much,…
Heather purple dress, part 2
I last left off this exciting saga (ha ha) with the front and back sewn to their facing/linings at the armhole edges and neckline, and the seam allowances clipped and graded. I then turned the front and back pieces right…
