This much-requested new pattern has felt like a long time coming… I had a lot of requests from ladies wanting our Perth dress/blouse pattern to be made for a larger size range… so ta da! this new version is for…
Tag: own design
Ms Winter
O hello, dahlings! This is Ms Winter. So very pleased to meet you! Her first name? well, what is in a name? Is a name, “just a name”, or does it mean something? We all know someone who makes…
a mustard raincoat, oh and a skirt too
Hello! I’ve made a new raincoat! So, I’ve been wearing my pale pink Kelly anorak raincoat, made from a shower curtain, for several years now, it was undoubtedly my most worn garment of last year by a fair dinkum mile! and…
scraps cardigan
A couple of years ago, I went down to help Mum clean out her “doing room”, the obvious outcome of such an exercise being that I then took home an embarrassingly huge amount of fabric and yarn supplies to add…
coupla delicious merino tees…
So, every now and then I tell myself that I’m not going to make any more winter tees since I have quite a nice little collection, really. And I think I really should be making do with less; wearing what…
a chattering of cockatoos
‘Ello, cocky! First things first, I have some very exciting news! For one month starting now, Spoonflower are offering a 10% discount on purchasers of ANY Spoonflower fabric by using the code “carolyn10” at checkout. Pretty awesome, huh?! I’m beyond…
high heeled black oxfords (shoes), plus some other stuff
I’ve made some new shoes! These have had a bit of a journey in the making, with a gap of about five months in the middle of it when I did absolutely nothing to them! Several things; feeling torn as…
saving a little bit of sunshine
So, once upon a time I picked up a lovely remnant of fine-grade sunshine-yellow linen from a sale at Potters Textile … and then at some point decided I wanted to make a yellow skirt. I plucked this, my only…
