I made a little tank dress with a matching top for Cassie… I’m hoping these will be very useful and versatile items in both her working and her weekend wardrobe. The two pieces can be worn together as a smart/casual…
Tag: own design
Red
So; red dress. I pinned this dress a while ago because I really loved the little shawl collar and the shape of the bodice and wanted to reproduce it for myself. I used a particularly nice, crisp and slightly slubby cotton from Fabulous Fabrics…
A horse, and other news
The lovely Yoshimi the Flying Squirrel will be literally flying! and over here! She has revealed her travel plans, so now I may say something too… I am thrilled to say that she is coming to visit me on her…
Scorpio
… the sign of the scorpion. Scorpio was always going to be the difficult one. I literally had zero idea what to do, right up until about last week. Googling scorpion images I did see some rather cool designs for scorpion tattoos…
White trees and buttons
I’ve sewn up my white trees fabric… into a top! I drafted it myself but it is a pretty simple silhouette; basically a big oversized T-shape, with something interesting in the form of the completely open top edge. The top…
Gunmetal linen trousers to jacket-y thing
So new top… well, new? not really, this funky little jacket was until recently a pair of menswear-inspired, wide-legged, linen trousers, that have been sitting in my re-fashioning bag for a coupla years now. True! I took them out to wear as fancy…
Sandy top with gold bits
OK, so I’ve made a top. Simple, fairly plain, unexciting even? but I’m totally happy with it anyway. Hard to see in the photo above, but the front and back neckbands have little golden swirls, twirling and tumbling sinuously around it. Screen-printed…
Beachy polka dots dress
So, we had some purr-fectly dee-lightful weather last Monday, allowing me to wear, and take some piccies of, my dress. The product of my giant beachy polka dots fabric, screen-printed by moi. Um, I’m completely satisfied with how it turned out. And I…
