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a purple mini and a striped tee

12/04/2025 Carolynsewing4 Comments on a purple mini and a striped tee

in the Nagano region Hello!  We recently spent nearly a month overseas in east Asia, specifically South Korea and Japan.  I’ll write a bit more about our trip in a future travel wardrobe post, but for now I’ll just be…

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the Pinjarra twinset

31/07/202331/07/2023 Carolynsewing4 Comments on the Pinjarra twinset

At last!  Cassie and I are thrilled to release our latest pattern in the Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co oeuvre… please welcome the Pinjarra twinset!   A twinset?  What on earth…?! you may be thinking/asking!  Well, the Pinjarra twinset is…

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dressing like a tomato

25/05/2023 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized6 Comments on dressing like a tomato

Hello! So, I’ve alluded to this ongoing project previously; the mission to “use up a rather large length of tomato-red jersey”  I am pleased and just a little lot relieved to report a successful completion of the mission, ahem… I…

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a punnet of raspberries

29/05/202227/06/2022 Carolynsewing3 Comments on a punnet of raspberries

I recently made a whole bunch of raspberry things … three, to be precise.  One of the large pieces of fabric that Mum tossed my way when she cleared out her stash was a length of raspberry stretchy stuff.  three…

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golden yellow Jade skirt

11/08/202011/08/2020 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on golden yellow Jade skirt

… sooo, while I was knitting up my new blue-flecked jumper I was all the time envisioning it worn with a brightly little coloured little skirt.  Only problem was that I currently did not have such a thing in my…

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chilli-red paprika jade skirt

14/06/201714/06/2017 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized14 Comments on chilli-red paprika jade skirt

Oh hello, fellow needle-wielders! Recently I decided I wanted, nay needed, a new colourful Jade mini-skirt; since my purple one was tragically taken too soon… *a minute’s silence, please* … Well, ta da! I’d gone back to Knitwit in search…

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purple-y Jade mini skirt, 6 different ways

26/05/201726/05/2017 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized28 Comments on purple-y Jade mini skirt, 6 different ways

During another of my sometimes brutal wardrobe clean outs, I parted ways with this little purple skirt… I have to admit it was a little gut-wrenching to get rid of this one because it had only been in existence for…

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purple-y jade

23/05/201627/05/2016 Carolynsewing21 Comments on purple-y jade

Remember my little charcoal Jade skirt? and how I mentioned I needed wanted it in a heap more colours? well, to cut to the chase, ta-da! Pattern; the Jade skirt by Paprika Patterns.  Now I’ve always said Vogue 1247 is…

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