photo by Shoshana Kruger Photography Kelly’s hair by Higley’s Hairdressing location; the Melbourne Hotel in Perth dress and veil; made by me! SO; Tim and Kelly became engaged to be married in January of last year… and shortly afterwards Kelly…
Tag: seams
Christmas pressies; a sewing marathon
Tim and Kelly… As usual, I made Christmas presents for my family… I started late October, so I was giving myself plenty of time, or so you’d think! I’m a fairly efficient seamster, and I still only just finished a…
Sydney jacket
have you guys seen COLOSSAL… ? Bet you can’t guess where I am here… Yeah, I know, it’s a tough one. Some locations are just so obscure and far off the beaten track, but I do like to…
white Issey Miyake shirt
Self-explanatory, really. #endblogpost 😉 Pattern; Vogue 1384. It’s a vintage pattern, hailing from 1984, sorry. Yeah, it’s annoying when people make things in vintage patterns that you can’t get a hold of anymore. But I’m sure this is not particularly aspirational…
finishing an edge with bias binding
Now, I promised to write this tutorial to show my Mum how I applied this finish to her top… and others expressed an interest too; thank you so much to everyone else who did… I finally did it, yay 😉 Mostly I would use this…
some random tips for sewing lingerie
There are a bajillion great posts out there with good tips for sewing lingerie; hopefully this one is adding one or two new pieces of info into the pot… Pattern pieces: If your pattern pieces are half ones it’s well…
reversible infinity, or twist, dress
I love working out convoluted construction puzzles in the process of sewing something and this new dress ticked that box very nicely. It looks kinda plain upon first glance, but it’s actually based upon a very unusual twisted design by Anita,…
Setting an invisible zip in a French seam
… as promised, and thank you to everyone who showed an interest 🙂 And, just saying; I am a believer that there is no necessarily right or wrong way to do anything in sewing, but whatever works and is neat…
