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Drape-ity drape

19/01/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized53 Comments on Drape-ity drape

I have made a new top and a new skirt!  and am combining the two new garments in one post; since they kinda go together so well and all, and actually the skirt is so… well, bland and basic that…

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Yellow pleats. please!

10/01/201325/09/2020 CarolynUncategorized49 Comments on Yellow pleats. please!

  Yes, my title is swiped shamelessly from Issey Miyake’s famous 1993 collection, but I reckon that is OK since this is an Issey Miyake design  😉 And you’ve probably noticed that it is yellow.  A yellow top.  Very yellow.  Quaite…

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Denimen. Ineminem.

06/01/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized33 Comments on Denimen. Ineminem.

First garment for the year! The credit for the cute pocket and the funky piecing and top-stitching goes to Mum of course  😉  Yes, remember this Vogue 8561 skirt that she made, and passed on to me because she didn’t like…

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Check-mate

09/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized45 Comments on Check-mate

… because I’ve made something in a check, and I’m accompanied by my best-est mate  🙂  The former, a rarity; the latter, far less so! So, the searing-est of searing hot scorchers are but just around the corner, and like a…

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A fluttery cloudy thing

04/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized32 Comments on A fluttery cloudy thing

This wasn’t actually supposed to be a real dress.  I was playing about.  I have to confess to a few struggles with my fabric… that had a mind of its own and a recalcitrant disposition.  If fabrics can be anthropomorphised;…

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here’s a thought…

30/11/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized10 Comments on here’s a thought…

Details: Top; from Pattern Magic 3, of grey marle jersey knit, details here Shorts; Burda 7723 modified, of grey/beige corduroy, details here Thongs; Havaiiana The last day of the month, the time of reckoning is at hand; and verily, an…

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All laced up with nowhere to go

18/11/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized67 Comments on All laced up with nowhere to go

I’m joking… of course I’ve got lots of nice places to go  🙂 I’ve made a lace skirt. My very luvverly, very perceptive friends again gave me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday.  Ohhh, they know me so well…

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Perchance to dream

27/10/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on Perchance to dream

I have made some rather daggy baggy shorts, but don’t worry.  Style has not flown out the window.  After today, these are my new summer PJ bottoms! I used a too-small-for-anything-else piece of polycotton, crazily colourful and wildly patterned; given…

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