* … Tennessee Williams… Hello! I’ve made a new skirt. Hehe, hot on the heels of writing that I was a wee smidgeon tired of making Vogue 1247 skirts; what should I do? but immediately make another one!! Doh!! Clearly there’s…
Tag: OWOP
one week one pattern
Hello! I’ve been taking part in One Week One Pattern again. Where we wear a representative of one pattern, for every day of a week. I am completely unable to resist a clothing challenge and particularly one tied up with sewing, so…
Bitumen hued shorts, with French fly
Ta da! New shorts! The funny thing about these is that during one of my regular stash sort-throughs, I had picked up this bit of fabric, shaken it out, sized it up, done one of those quick mental assessments (I’m…
Just a splash of Colour…
So on what is yet another sunny sunny day (yeah, we do get lots of them here) I would normally head straight for the shadows away from that notoriously harsh Australian light that drains all colour and detail from my…
Cordelicious
O, hai, peops! (drum roll) another pair of Burda 7723 shorts. This is ma “greige” corduroy pair, that gets more appreciation as the cooler autumn weather rolls around. The pattern modified in that they are longer, and substantially flared. Colours,…
Limoncello
Today I’m wearing (Surprise!) shorts! 😀 But great colour, yes? In a fresh and cool shade of acidic citrus yellow, like a shot glass of limoncello, that wickedly delicious stuff that is to my mind another synonym for “summer evening”.…
Peachy keen
I knew I should attempt to work this jacket into at least one day of the one-week-one-pattern challenge. And today is the coolest day forecast for this week (27C) so I decided that today just had to be that day.…
White as white…
I’m pretty good with laundry. These shorts are a testament to that, since I made them over two years ago, the first pair of shorts using this week’s pattern Burda 7723; and despite being subjected to rock-climbing, hiking, camping (just…
