I really really wanted some navy blue tights. Basically I have two, yes, two! navy blue corduroy skirts for winter, and a coupla hand-knit cardigans including this one which are mainly midnight blue and which I want to dig out…
Tag: Sienna
Olive Frankenstein skirt
I am notoriously bad at tossing out old scraps of fabric. Particularly if I really really like the colour. And I really really like olive. So; after finishing my patched pockets skirt I still had some promisingly largish pieces…
White linen Zsalya dress with patchwork
Hello! I’m wearing a new dress. The cool fingers of winter are tickling at the edges of our days so obviously I had to make a light and fluttery, floaty white linen thing for myself. It was only logical *…
Patched pockets
Just to provide further proof of my predilection for unusual clothing … please allow me to present my new skirt. This skirt is the love-child of four old pairs of jeans. They were a bit battered but in favourite colours,…
Green pleats, please!
Hello! 🙂 So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green. Definitely far more me 😉 Hoorah for dye!…
some tops
I’ve made a couple of new tops lately 🙂 I’ve made this design once before so I knew I’d like this new one too. It is a modified version of the loose draped top from drape drape, by Hisako Sato. Modified…
Big baggy pockets…
… with bonus skirt. It is an unusual skirt, admittedly. That’s OK. One description could focus on the fact that it is softly creamy in shade, ever-so-slightly crinkly in texture, interestingly layered in construction, and easily breezily comfortably summery as…
Cocoa Tao
Hello! I’m wearing a new blouse. It is the Tao, by Tamanegi-Kobo. I’ve seen lots of lovely Tamanegi-Kobo designs made by Yoshimi, and then during me-made May saw even more worn by Japanese ladies, including the adorable and very talented designer…
