First garment for the year! The credit for the cute pocket and the funky piecing and top-stitching goes to Mum of course đ Yes, remember this Vogue 8561 skirt that she made, and passed on to me because she didnât like…
Tag: skirt
LBS
The amount of Christmas “creating” going on around here has been insane lately! I have been sewing like an absolute madwoman… ! but this Little Black Skirt is not a part of that. This is a sorta urgent extra! …
Red velveteen skirt; 6 different ways
A big fashion trend around about these parts currently is the red jeans trend. It is HUGE-o-rama!  I do like it too..  however since my husband bought a pair of bright red jeans for himself while in Milan and my daughter…
Keeping the lace pure and undarted in a fitted skirt
My lace design has regular repeating rows of curlicues, scrolls and flower motifs that I felt would have been spoiled by waist shaping darts; also the lace fabric is quite thick and darts would not have sat nice and flat…
All laced up with nowhere to go
I’m joking… of course I’ve got lots of nice places to go đ 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…
Cut me a little Black
In my recent, gloriously ruthless, spring clean-out of my wardrobe, I culled an evening gown, originally made using Burda 8046 and first posted here. I’ve worn it about seven times in total; none in the past three years; and have now…
Full Moon, from Pattern Magic 3
I have made a new …. er, thing. A top? Yup, I think I have made a new top. Maybe it’s more of an experiment than a top really. One of the drafting exercises exploring how the placement of apertures…
Stripe-ly
After I had finished Craig’s hoodie, I had quite a lot of leftover fabric. I had originally bought 2.5m of this lovely grey-and-black striped cotton jersey from Spotlight. Turns out that this was stacks. Loads. Well ahem, I didn’t want to fall short…
