I’m very happy and pleased that my Mum agreed to let me photograph her wearing her very recently completed hand-dyed-embroidered-and-stitched creation, and to show the pictures here on my blog … thank you so much Mum! This is Mum’s third…
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Pomegranate
Don’t worry if you don’t “get” the title of this post; that’s an in-house joke… 😉 I have made another birthday shirt, this one for Mum. The pattern is Vogue 1247. Yup. This is the seventh butterfly to emerge from…
Kitchen witch
Some kitchen couture!! With all the gorgeous aprons popping up in the sewing blogging world at the mo’ I thought I should show why I did not take part in the big sew-along this time… you see; I have a…
Mum’s knitted Noro vest
Anyone familiar with my blog might remember that occasionally I feature my Mum here, and some of the meticulously crafted and beautiful pieces that she makes. She knitted this vest a few years ago and has up until now resisted pleas to…
Mum’s silk kimono
With thoughts of self-stitched sleepwear ricochetting about my recent consciousness like a pingpong ball being batted about by a playful pussycat… as well as unique and beautifully artistic garments that delight and inspire us creative types…. This is a silk kimono…
Some foot fabulousness; hand-knit by Mum
My mother gave me a special gift for my birthday recently, two works of art designed to adorn the foot-al region of my person: a pair of her famous Turkish socks. Well, famous in our own family, anyway… traditionally she…
Fabulous stuff made by Mum and Dad…
My Mum and Dad are enormously creative and talented. They have made heaps and heaps of beautiful things…a visit to their house reveals one lovely work after another. I took some pictures of just a few during our last visit……
Mum’s dragonfly vest
I hasten to point out, not my work at all but another clever example of Mum’s creativity… A vest made of Japanese linen; resist dyed, with a lovely dragonfly motif in the natural linen, and the background in traditional indigo. The…
