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Menswear; linen shirt no. 3

01/04/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Menswear; linen shirt no. 3

Here is my husband’s new shirt.  It was made using Burda 7767 (again, such a great pattern!) with the fit variations I perfected making the last shirt.  I altered the collar size slightly; the pattern comes with three collar variations…

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Canal Rocks

21/03/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on Canal Rocks

Full day today, this is why I’m posting so late tonight.  We had a busy sociable day, and rounded off by going to watch the sun set over the ocean.  Here, my husband took so many beautiful photos, and also…

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Borrowing from husband’s wardrobe, again…

15/03/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on Borrowing from husband’s wardrobe, again…

Woot, for autumn!  I think the hot weather has finally settled down after a last scorcher on Friday and I’m in the mood for some of my cooler weather gear and some cooler weather colouring…. This skirt has been a…

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Menswear, linen shirt no. 2

17/02/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized8 Comments on Menswear, linen shirt no. 2

I made my husband another shirt! The fabric; well I got brave, and in a first for me bought some fabric online.  I felt quite strange about this as I have never bought fabric without feeling the weight and thickness…

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Wardrobe Refashion, project 5

05/02/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Wardrobe Refashion, project 5

Has anyone seen the Vivienne Westwood Spring/Summer 2010 collection, a parade which included what looks like Frankenstein-ed business shirts jammed together in magnificent artistic disarray, at left; sigh, pure gorgeousness incarnate, no?  I think Vivienne Westwood is a design genius,…

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Menswear, linen shirt

22/12/200915/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized3 Comments on Menswear, linen shirt

Today is my husband’s birthday, and my gift to him is a linen shirt.  Handmade by me, of course!  He requested that I make him some linen shirts after he bought himself one and loved the feel of the linen…

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