When I saw this skirt in an op shop I think I just saw “white” and “kind of lacy” and grabbed it thinking yeah! But on getting it home I had second thoughts about the applique-y pattern on the net…
Tag: own design
Glossy wooden beads
Got heaps of office work to do today, so may not enter the laundry (where my sewing machine is situated, taunting me) until it’s all done… I also had a few errands to run, so took time out to sneak…
Tea Cosy, specimen 9
Here is the tea cosy I made for my mother-in-law for her birthday last year. She loves the beach and spends a lot of time walking and swimming on the beach, so I took the soft blues and browns of…
My husband gave me flowers…
Actually he gave these to me a few days ago and they’ve been sitting on our kitchen bench looking fresh, optimistic and cheerful and brightening up my days with that particularly intense clarity of simple colour, that gerberas are so…
Wardrobe Refashion, project 3
Not a terribly exciting re-fashion this week, but I’m still pretty happy with the result. Before; an old work shirt of my husband’s that he was tossing out. Pro’s; it’s made of sturdy thick cotton knit with a lovely blue-marle…
Lacy “tablecloth” skirt
For quite some time I’ve wanted to make myself a skirt out of an old crocheted or lace tablecloth, and with this in mind I’ve searched op-shops for some suitable candidate to chop up. Not only didn’t I find any…
Bleached crinkly cotton
I was on the verge of throwing this skirt out, or re-fashioning it (I am getting so into this re-fashioning it’s not funny, I think it’s becoming an obsession with me) because I ripped it the last time I wore…
Tea Cosy, specimen 8
I think this is my favourite of the tea cosies I’ve made for my friends; it’s got a “Roly Poly” base, (pattern from Wild Tea Cosies, by Loani Prior), but the three chickens in a nest on the top are…
