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…
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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…
Wardrobe Refashion, project 2
For my second Wardrobe Refashion project I took the scissors to some three quarter pants that I’ve had for about two or three years. They’ve been good pants and I loved them when I first bought them, but over time…
Heather purple dress, part 1
I have been sewing like mad over the past few weeks, what with the kids on holidays and I’ve got a break from my office work as we’re in the process of switching over computer systems, and I’ve nearly finished…
