My Christmas present to my boys this year is a tailored shirt for each one; in pin-striped linen with contrasting white collar, cuffs, and buttonbands, and a double welted breast pocket with looped button closure. Three shirts in addition to…
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Gemini
Gemini, the twins. Of course my boys are not twins obviously, they are separated by several years and have one sister in between them too. But they are both Geminis! That picture cracks me up btw… so brotherly… 😀…
Navy stripes
It was Sam’s birthday a few days back and I made a shirt for him. The fabric is from Spotlight, a medium-weight cotton twill in a heavy cream colour with navy blue stripes. Ahem, stripes again, I know; but hey. It’s…
Stripey Sam; Sam’s Christmas shirt
Next up; Sam! and I made a shirt for his Christmas pressie too. Ohhhh yes, I have been a very very busy bee lately! I used Burda 7767, and blue and white striped fabric from the Fabric Store, Melbourne… bought during…
Blue-grey hoodie
I have made a hoodie; this one for Sam. Sam is my quiet one; he never asks for anything, on the contrary he will firmly and testily deny that he ever needs new clothes or any new belongings at…
The Boatshed
Isn’t it nice when you open a winter woollies drawer and discover a little something that you had finished off a few months ago, in the height of summer when you could not wear it, and suddenly you can wear it??…
Comfort…
On a sartorial note; today was one of those disastrously uninspired days when I contemplated and rejected just about everything in my wardrobe. Everything felt hideous to me! Finally just settled on this blah blah ensemble… not very put together…
The Daughter of Woman
I am paying homage to “The Son of Man” the 1964 painting by Rene Magritte. Today’s mini-challenge within the me-made May group is to be pictured with food, or to be eating or drinking something. So I took inspiration from…
