Exactly the same pattern as last year. Boring? well, maybe; of course I do like to try out new patterns every now and again but I just illogically wanted to have the exact same silhouette again this year. You do…
Tag: Sienna
Some haute couture…
… hehe, just kidding. Just proving that I actually followed through on my promise. Sienna now has cast-off old sofa fabric no, wait; brand new (to her), freshly washed and fluffy, specially custom fit covers on her two beds. Lucky girl!!! the inside bed… the…
Do you like big pockets…?
… if so then this is the skirt for you! I have never seen pockets to rival these, ever. I knew (intellectually) the pockets were big by the picture on the pattern envelope, but the (realistic) first sight of the…
Heya…
… and thank you so much for your kind well-wishes yesterday. Sorry, I’m still a bit flat. Today our schizophrenic weather who doesn’t know if it’s Arthur or Martha, turned so so beautiful. This was such a contrast to…
Back again
Hello. I’m feeling a bit woolly-headed so I’m warmly rugged up and back to standing in a familiar place for self-stitched September today. So I’m not feeling very imaginative. But fortuitously so; I think the thickly clouded whiteness of sky, the smooth…
Shades of grey…
Self-stitched September; day 20: Awkward time of the year. Donned tights again this morning because of a pessimistic weather forecast, only to later find myself too hot. Lol! And not sewing or handmaking related at all, but still exciting… the…
The dreaded flannie…
When I first made this shirtdress I received a comment on Pattern Review that it was “like the dreaded flannie“, but so much nicer” Of course this was the exact effect I was absolutely hoping to evoke… ;D It’s comfortable,…
Remembering
A lot of us are going to be remembering today the terrible events of 9/11 ten years ago, and what they were doing that day… this is a rambling recollection of my pretty ordinary life on that day. We were…
