Exactly the same pattern as last year. Boring? well, maybe; of course I do like to try out new patterns every now and again but I just illogically wanted to have the exact same silhouette again this year. You do…
Tag: own design
Wave-y welts; a how-to
Some mistakenly thought my wave-y welts were ric-rac; well they’re not! I made them myself!… although if you do have access to such a thing as giant ric-rac (I have never come across any such thing! but then Perth is…
Wave-y orange welts
I made a little sundress. First impressions are that this is just a very plain little thing with minimal detailing. Note … first impressions. The apparent plain-ness is intentional because I wanted for the one and only detail to…
Turning old jeans into a skirt…
… I decided it was high time for another refashion since I still have a small mountain of perfectly good fabric in the form of old clothing sitting in my stash. eep! Do you remember these jeans? They had…
Burnt orange skirt
I’ve seen a couple of other little orange skirts just like this recently, namely Gail’s and Yoshimi’s, so you will have to take my word for it that I bought this fabric a couple of months ago and have had…
Pattern Magic linked-front dress
A new dress…! This is drafted from the Japanese pattern book Pattern Magic, by Tomoko Nakamichi. Since mine is the Japanese version I don’t know its translated name, but it is the design on p49. There is a bit of…
Crocheted Granny-squares skirt
I crocheted a skirt! Yup, a whole skirt…. almost can’t believe it myself, since crochet is not my forte. Now I was initially inspired by Jo Sharp’s Hexagon skirt, but have discovered this new-wave trend was set by Australian designers…
Scrumpled leggings
Ta da! Scrumpled leggings! You like? I do! And I think they fit in very nicely with my current seasonal aim of dressing to suit the natural colours and textures of my environment… I know this is not a new…
