For years I’ve avidly read about the Tessuti sewing competition and always wanted to enter.. this year I finally got myself organised into ordering some of the fabric in a timely fashion! Buying fabric online is always a leeetle bit…
Tag: Simplicity 3745
Lacey, sort-of Duro dress; 6 different ways
Oooh, I do enjoy doing these more than is healthy. Playing about in my wardrobe, I mean. I made this dress, a modified version of Simplicity 3745 out of white dotted swiss voile and a crocheted lace for the border…
The colours of Valentine’s Day
I’ve been off colour for a few days, and feeling blue… but I’m not complaining, as things are definitely looking more rosy today… This evening my husband and I strolled down to the river together for a picnic under the paperbarks to…
All dressed up with no place to go…
This dress is sooo cool and light and easy. It’s funny to think this was last year’s Christmas dress… it’s done pretty well. Perhaps getting a bit “round the house-ish” but still quite nice. So here I am today, all…
Pinky pink.
It took me a while to settle on this outfit today. I had originally planned to wear my brand new top, from the pattern I was tracing out yesterday (yes, it’s finished!!) but it was lacking the right buttons to…
Domestic diva
The Maternity dress. Oh, sorry, not aiming to mislead, I’m NOT expecting. This is just the name I mentally gave to this dress ever since its debut out of the home atelier. This final form here is quite a bit…
The colours of Spring
Today I attended a very glamourous luncheon and fashion parade with friends, and am now exhausted… so please excuse any crazy bad spelling or random ungrammatical remarks in this post… For this occasion I wore my new pink lace…
Pink lace dress
I’ve made a new dress for spring, but I’ve persuaded Bessie to model it for today… because I’ve started to think about Self-Stitched September coming up where I’ll be documenting my handmade daily outfits everyday (hope that’s not going to…
