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Wave-y orange welts

26/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on 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…

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Turning old jeans into a skirt…

24/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on 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…

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Burnt orange skirt

12/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized24 Comments on 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…

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Pattern Magic linked-front dress

28/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized44 Comments on 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…

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Crocheted Granny-squares skirt

23/08/201116/08/2017 CarolynUncategorized70 Comments on 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…

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Scrumpled leggings

19/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized16 Comments on 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…

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Easiest knitted handwarmers, ever

09/08/201127/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized14 Comments on Easiest knitted handwarmers, ever

So, I mentioned that I had plenty of socks already, but still some sock yarn kicking around… so I turned to another extremity on my person that really feels the cold; my hands.  I am definitely a cold-hand person… and…

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A leopard print daughter…

05/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on A leopard print daughter…

We bought enough of this gorgeous leopard print stretchy stuff in lovely caramels and warm golden brown shades to make this little Cat-girl set; Cassie made the Tshirt herself, drafting her own design based on a Tshirt she already has and…

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