My mother gave me a length of bottle green, sparkly stretch velvet for my birthday last year… and I wanted to make something nice with it before my next birthday rolled around. This is fast approaching so I needed to…
Tag: Pattern Magic
some cute new work clothes
I actually finished these things a little while ago but have only just now had the chance to photograph them… also I have a new policy with regard to making things. I’m planning to alternate making things for others in…
some noice new basics…
I’ve had this post sitting just as a draft for weeks now and just keep adding new tees to it but I’m rapidly coming annoyed with myself that when I wear one of them I have to write “not blogged…
blush pink twist top
Ok, so; new top. Running down ye checklist… It’s blush pink. Blush pink is so hot right now! Note; ticks “colour so trendy it hurts” box It’s twisty. Twisted is ME! Note; ticks “my kinda thing” box Do I need it? well, it’s…
forest green twist top
I’ve made a new top. This is, as my title oh-so subtly suggests, the twist top from Pattern Magic; and is my fourth iteration of this top. First three are here, here and here. Clearly I love this design. And…
Incredi-Yellow!
I think every year I seem compelled to make for myself one skirt in some extremely garish shade. This year isn’t get away scot free either. I bought this brilliant daffodil yellow pin-wale corduroy from Spotlight a few years ago.…
Supreme Commander Servalan
Put him on the fastest scout ship available and send him here. No flight plan is to be filed. That’s against Bureau standing orders, Commissioner. Who do you think wrote those orders, Borr? I did. So do as I say,…
Keeping the lace pure and undarted in a fitted skirt
My lace design has regular repeating rows of curlicues, scrolls and flower motifs that I felt would have been spoiled by waist shaping darts; also the lace fabric is quite thick and darts would not have sat nice and flat…
