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Sunset Ocean check and Cornflower mini-check

21/10/2023 12:22 pm \ 2 Comments \

Hello!  I made all four of these summery new things featured here during the depths of winter actually, and took a whole lot of photos whilst also wearing thick tights and boots… but obviously the vibe was strange!  so here I am, the weather a little more appropriate.  I was maybe a little too optimistic for warm weather at the time.  Silly me.

These fabrics are both linens from Maai Design; in Sunset Ocean check and the co-ordinating blue is Cornflower mini check.  With careful cutting I managed to get four items from my lengths of fabric and use up every single scrap!  two tops, a hat and a skirt.  I absolutely love it when I can have no leftovers.

Item 1; a Yallingup top in the Sunset Ocean check.  This pattern is one of our own Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co designs…  I’m a big believer in this top, it’s truly a lovely design to wear in summer.  So comfy and breezy.

Item 2; a matching skirt.  This is a Burdastyle pattern, 03/2016; 101 (A-line skirt pattern). I thought this pattern would be perfect for the fabric but truthfully it really requires a slightly thicker and beefier fabric to hold up this welt pockets.  It’s fine though, really; I’m very happy with this skirt and am excited to wear it!  I really love how the checks look cut on the bias for the lower panels.  I was lucky to find a perfect, pale blue invisible zip already in the stash.

Item 3; a blouse in the Cornflower mini-check.  This is another of our own Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co designs, with shortened sleeves due to not quite enough fabric, and a big patch pocket just for fun.  Throughout I topstitched with a pink thread, also just for fun, although it barely shows up!  Button also from stash.

   

Item 4; a hat.  This is the Elbe Textiles Sorrento bucket hat, that I’ve made many many times before.  I made it reversible, with the ocean sunset one side and the cornflower mini check on the other side.  Now I just need bathers to match!  This photo makes me smile, this is one of about 100 identical trips to and from the ocean with Theo to fill up that little watering can.  He absolutely LOVES the beach and we spent hours there happily playing in the sand and wading in the shallows, Theo chortling like mad.  Such a joyful day, I hope this photo helps me to remember this time.

I’m also wearing these bathers, made using my favourite vintage McCalls pattern, and my beach cover up, made using the Closet Core patterns Charlie caftan pattern.

I’ve still got more unblogged things to share soon!  until then. 🙂

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black velvet hoodie jacket and matching skirt

12/10/2023 4:21 pm \ 3 Comments \

Hello!  long time no blog… I’ve been having a few technological issues.  Specifically, my lovely loyal computer started dying and then… did die *pause for a moment’s silence*  Towards the end it was impossible to do anything without everything crashing …. life was becoming terribly frustrating.  Traumatic times!  Anyway, long story short; I have a lovely new computer now! Yes, that was the short version, thank goodness for that!

Anyway, time for me to blog some of the things I’ve been making…  oh I noticed just today that my blog is just about exactly 14? years old now?  Happy bloggiversary to me!  I can hardly believe it, how time has zoomed by!

So, I made this skirt and hoodie jacket set a little while ago… this is exactly the sort of thing I love to wear during winter and I’m excited to wear it in autumn too.  The fabric is quite warm but the sleeves of the jacket are short, so I can see it being pretty good during the seasonal change too.

Patterns: the jacket is Burdastyle 10/2009, 108; a pattern I have used once before, here.  This time I fully lined the jacket, and did not put in any piping.

The skirt is the new Fibremood Marah pattern, available here.  I cut the mini version, just bit longer.  It’s a pretty cute pattern, like a jeans skirt with a front fly and slanted side pockets.  Plus the usual back patch pockets, and for good measure two extra big pockets at the side too.  These match the big patch pockets on my jacket, which is quite nice I think.

Fabrics; the mustard patterned black velvet is a fairly heavy upholstery fabric that was given to me years ago by a friend, who was cleaning out her mother-in-law’s stash.  It’s almost got thrown out multiple times, but I’ve always saved it at the last minute because it’s really not too bad. I cut the pockets and hoodie from a mustard/caramel cotton corduroy, leftovers from a pair of jeans I made years ago.  It matches the pattern on the velvet perfectly!  like it was meant to be.

I lined both pieces with a deep olive green lining fabric, from old stash.  Yes, actually both fabrics are from old old stash and even the zip was recycled.  I’m still using my supplies up as much as I can!  I haven’t bought any new fabric this year! although I might allow myself one new piece.  My friends gave me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday and I would like to use it before the year is out.  That’s ok, because this year I have managed to get my stash right down to about a third of what it used to be.  I’m so happy about that!

Also recently; I made a new pair of Fridgetown hand warmers for my daughter-in-law Kelly.  I’d given her a pair a few years ago; when we first created the pattern, and she’s worn them threadbare!  So thrilled that she loved them so much! and she requested a new pair for her birthday.  Preferably they would go nicely with this navy and white striped hoodie that I made for her even more years ago, and that she still wears very regularly.  I happened to have a just-big-enough length of cranberry merino, leftover from this T-shirt I made for myself a few years ago and ran up the handwarmers.  It’s so nice to have family who likes to wear the things that I make for them; truly I do not take this for granted!  The Fridgetown hand warmer pattern is available here.

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the Pinjarra twinset

31/07/2023 8:00 pm \ 4 Comments \

At last!  Cassie and I are thrilled to release our latest pattern in the Carolyn & Cassie Pattern Co oeuvre… please welcome the Pinjarra twinset!

 

A twinset?  What on earth…?! you may be thinking/asking!  Well, the Pinjarra twinset is specifically, a cardigan with a long necktie/collarline, and a long sleeved T-shirt/tee/skivvy with two collar options, one a higher loose turtleneck and the other a more scooped neckline with a skinny band to finish.  A little wardrobe concept that once upon a time was called a twinset!  This particular set of designs is a pattern I’ve used for myself over and over and over again and wear it very frequently; so I can confidently attest to its usefulness and versatility as a really good basic.

And as a special introductory offer we are offering the new pdf pattern with a 20% discount for the first week of its debut; that is until Monday 7th August!  It is currently available in our Carolyn and Cassie Pattern Co Etsy store, here.

Although I have quite a few already I made a new Pinjarra cardigan to celebrate the pattern being finished and ready to release… I bought this very beautiful pink double merino jersey from the Fabric Store in Melbourne when we went there for Harry Potter.  It’s so beautiful!  Incidentally I’m wearing a new skirt with it too; this is once of my favourite patterns the Paprika Patterns Jade mini skirt.  I’ve made this stacks of times too.  This is a cotton jersey from Le Stash, of course…  🙂  The ivory tee underneath is another early Pinjarra, made a couple of years ago.

This turtleneck neckline is one I have been making the longest and I absolutely love it for winter.

I made a set for Mum too!  using a black cotton jersey and some of the blue/grey cotton jersey for the neck tie… I think the contrasting necktie is very chic!  A variation that gives it a slightly different look, even a little more formal looking, perhaps?

Cassie made a striped Pinjarra cardigan, with shorter sleeves, thanks to not quite enough fabric!  This looks so cool, in my opinion!  She is wearing it with the grey maternity skirt I made for her recently, using Burda 7023…

And here she is wearing my yellow Pinjarra cardigan, the pink Pinjarra tee I made for her last year, and the navy blue Burda 7023 maternity skirt that I made recently too.  How lovely is this combination for work?  I think she looks elegant and professional  🙂

The following is a little history of the Pinjarra evolution, which may or may not be interesting at all.  But this is my blog which I think has all this documented over the years anyway, so why not summarise?

As I’ve long documented here; my original go-to T-shirt pattern was a Burda pattern that didn’t fit so I fine-tuned it to better fit me (blogged about here).  Then I switched to the Closet Core Nettie pattern, that was pretty good but I eventually started improving the fit of that one too, until it ended up completely different from the pattern, with absolutely zero of the original seamlines left.  At some point I rediscovered my modified Burda pattern and overlaid it with my modified Nettie and it was pretty interesting to me that my modifications were nearly identical!  Anyway, long and short was that I now started to think of and use this as my personal custom fit T-shirt block and it became my basis for all stretch fit bodices.

the earliest iteration of the cardigan design, 2015

My first cardigan prototype appeared back here in 2015, although that one is of course quite different from this final, far more polished design.  Every time I’ve made it I’ve twiddled with the design and I now feel like it’s a really nice robust cardigan with a good construction procedure.

I got the idea to make the two of them a twinset pattern back when I made the above marigold yellow, matching two piece set, blogged here.  The tee’s final neckline is a little lower that this one as I thought this one a little high.  Yes; I have thought long and hard about these little things!  At this point I started working on the two necklines, grading the pattern, and writing instructions.  And Cassie of course did her essential digital part.  Et voila!  the Pinjarra twinset is now here!

The name?  Well, “twinset” has always sort of suggested to me, rightly or wrongly, the kind of thing a grandmother would have worn regularly once upon a time; since actually both of my own grandmothers did. And Cassie’s grandmother lives in Pinjarra.  So it felt like a good fit.  And having a pattern named Pinjarra seems fair since my mother, Cassie’s other grandmother, lives in Bridgetown and we’ve already used the name Bridgetown in our Fridgetown handwarmers pattern.

But I honestly think the Pinjarra is a pretty cool design and not particularly grandmother-ly one way or the other either.  More like a really a good basic that absolutely anyone could wear!

another early iteration of the cardigan….

The pattern is currently available in our etsy  shop, here.  Remember that 20% discount for the next week!  We hope you enjoy making and wearing either or all parts of the Pinjarra twinset as much as we have!

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some new sewn things….

24/06/2023 10:08 am \ 9 Comments \

Hello!  I’ve been busy; making lots of things, but not so busy posting them!

Firstly; Cassie is expecting again, so I’ve whipped up a few new maternity outfits…

Items 1 and 2;

this is the Closet Core Ebony tee combined with the Burda 7023 maternity skirt pattern.  This is such a great maternity combination; I’ve made it as a set for both Cassie and Kelly in the past and it’s worked so well.  This set is made with navy blue merino and a navy blue/red striped cotton jersey; both have been in the stash for at least a year.  I’d bought 2m of the merino from The Fabric Store and made one single tee; I’d been planning a cardi from the remainder but never got around to it… I’d bought the striped jersey to make baby things but again not got around to it yet…   Right now I’m totally over saving things for that imagined planned project but am just of the mindset to use what I’ve got, when the mood for a project strikes … it’s a much healthier mindset in my opinion!  After all, I can always buy more fabric if I don’t have something appropriate, right?

Items 3 and 4;

the same pattern combo as above, in a mossy green/grey stretch stuff.  I have no memory of buying this, and I’m pretty sure it’s another from Mum’s stash.  I didn’t have quite enough to cut the tee full length so it’s about 10cm or so shorter than the pattern.  Still looks pretty nice imo!  I think the sombre colour makes it look a bit more sophisticated and smart.

Item 5;

this is a Burda pattern; 2/2015;107… I’ve made it for her once previously and she absolutely loves that dress.  Thus why she requested that I make this one, using fabric from her stash.  I think she bought it from Tessuti? when we were in Melbourne, and yes I know I know; I’m trying to use my own stash, why on earth am I accepting commissions from other people’s stashes, hmmm??  Madness!  But she’s my daughter so of course I acquiesced.  She’s pretty busy, after all!

The fabric is a very lightweight silk?  I think… so lightweight I deemed it necessary to underline totally with a creamy coloured, very drapey drill, also used for that visible tie.  This was from the stash, yay!  It was all finished and I was pretty happy; however when she tried it on it looked way too heavy.  When I’d made the first one I’d simply lined it, not underlined; and I realised this was the problem… the simple fix was to cut away the underlining from the side seams and resew the underlining side seams separately to make it a lining.  Sounds kinda slapdash but it worked pretty well.  The silk hangs quite nicely now!  This is not really a maternity pattern but Cassie has found it works just fine in early pregnancy.

Item 6; another self-drafted tee for Arthur.  This was cut from one of the last of Tim’s old tees from my T-shirt bag!  Feels good to have those all gone now!

bragging about careful stripe matching ahem, particularly on those very small sleeve bands!

Item 7; a kinda silly hat for Cassie.  I cut this from the scraps from hers and Theo’s matching pj pants; blogged here.  The fabric is of course her own design, from her Spoonflower shop.  The hat is a little funny but you know, the fabric was too nice to throw out.

The pattern is the Elbe Textiles Sorrento bucket hat; this used to be a free pattern but now has a small price on it.  Which is fine, imo.  Designers should be paid for the work they do!  Did I ever tell you the story about the sewist who sent us multiple emails trying to not only get our patterns for themselves for free, but also to donate them as prizes for her followers?  All to “support us and help promote us”?  No?  One for another time, maybe!

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💜 borahae! *

13/06/2023 9:02 pm \ 7 Comments \

Hello!  So, in the never-ending saga that is my making journey, blah blah blah; I want to try and make at least one thing per month for no reason other than it satisfies my creative desires.   This is kinda important since lately I actually seem to make a lot of things that don’t satisfy me creatively at all …   strange, huh?  anyway, it’s just something I want to make time for, for my own personal happiness.

It doesn’t have to necessarily be “useful” or practical either…  just something that I want to make, just because.  While also being entirely from the stash, the other important proviso of course!

Something that’s bothered me for a while is that I have practically zero purple clothing… and nothing purple in the stash either.  Also, today is the 10th anniversary of BTS debut, and being a reasonably recent fan (more on that later) I thought I could observe this milestone and fill the gaping purple hole in my wardrobe at the same time.

I had some cherry red cotton corduroy, originally from Mum’s stash… and I also have plenty of old jeans.  I think these ones were also Mum’s actually!  Thanks, Mum!

Plans were made, patterns were perused, discarded, dyes checked out.  I worked out I could cut out the Named Maisa jean jacket from my corduroy, and also get a little matching skirt out if I cut some of the pieces from the old jeans.  To make everything purple, I would dye the cherry red corduroy with navy blue dye, and the blue jeans would get a red dye bath,  This may or may not have been a disastrous adventure, but you know me, nothing ventured, nothing gained.  I was so excited to see how it was going to go!

Stuff cut out.  Here are the bits and bobs.  The leftovers (middle right) are, I’m proud to boast; practically nothing.  I did save some of them for another little project, yet to be realised…

I made up the body part of the Maisa jean jacket first, and overlocked the edges of the other red jacket bits, for dyeing.

I cut out a few extra pockets… I wasn’t sure where these would go exactly but I just cut and dyed them anyway, thinking I’d find the right spot for them eventually.

The second stage was to make the skirt.  The design is my own, that I’m planning to make into a pattern for mine and Cassie’s tiny little company this year, if possible!  It has deep pockets, and no zip, instead closing over a hip pocket.  I made this completely including lining, before dyeing it as a whole in the same dye bath as the jean jacket body, just with a little bit of extra blue added.  I used a green lining fabric  (why not, ’twas in the stash) and some leftover pink linen from my Lennox dress to line the waistband.  This is how they turned out after the dye job.  I’m really happy with how (to my mind) gorgeous the colours look together!

Last step was to construct the jacket sleeves and collar, and dye these and the rescued jeans pockets in a red dye bath.  I’d added a tiny bit of blue to this bath too, on a hunch; and am quite happy with the level of purple achieved.  Then I finished the jacket construction.   The two extra corduroy pockets got stitched onto the denim sleeves of the jacket, and the rescued denim jeans pockets got stitched to the body of the jacket.  Of course I’m thrilled to have some useful pockets on the jacket!

Some details:  I used copper jeans buttons, these were the only things bought new for the project.  For the most part, I used black thread or a dark khaki thread for the skirt lining and some other parts; and navy blue overlocking thread throughout.  For the skirt; I had two purple buttons already in my stash, which was handy.

Final verdict; well of course all that strong red turned out more raspberry than purple; though the jacket sleeves are decidedly purple.  I still love it though! and am very excited to wear it a lot during winter.  Although I “wanted” purple; raspberry is of course one of my favourite colours; so how could I not be happy?!

* “borahae” actually kinda translates to “I purple you”, and is a BTS thing…  So I’ve been a low-key fan for a few years, but it wasn’t until I started making wedding dresses and spending a lot of time listening to youtube videos and bingeing on BTS Run while I hand stitched tiny lace motifs onto silk and tulle bodices that I really got into them a lot more.  Then during the making of Lainey’s wedding dress, I finally finished viewing the entirety of BTS Run and of course anyone who has watched the show knows you cannot help but eventually became hopelessly addicted!  Aaah!  I’m not going to say any more, because it’s a little bit embarrassing, at my age!  but anyway there it is.  I’ve said it now!   💜

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dressing like a tomato

25/05/2023 2:23 pm \ 6 Comments \

Hello!

So, I’ve alluded to this ongoing project previously; the mission to “use up a rather large length of tomato-red jersey”  I am pleased and just a little lot relieved to report a successful completion of the mission, ahem…

I originally bought this “remnant” from a Morrison seconds sale… it was very cheap… when I had the chance to check it out properly I realised it was at least 6m in length, possibly more if I’m honest.  Phew!  Just a few weeks ago I dedicated myself to remove this from Le Stash.

Item 1; a dress for Cassie… this is the Ebony pattern by Closet Core patterns.  I don’t have any pictures of her wearing it, but it skims her knees and the sleeves are elbow length.  This will be a great little dress for winter for her; worn with tights and boots, over a turtleneck, and with her denim jacket, it looks super cute!

Item 2; a little T-shirt for Theo (previously posted)

yes, he looks cute

Items 3,4 and 5; a little T-shirt for Arthur, plus the sleeves for two more (previously posted)

here he is on Mothers Day.  Cassie is wearing this dress I made last year, and Tim is wearing a hoodie I made for him yeeeeears ago.  I’m thrilled he still loves it so much!  Also, yes, the dress is still mine but I’ve lent it to Cassie for a little while because she wanted some more work-appropriate dresses and I don’t have the time to make new ones for her just yet!

 

Item 6;

a cardigan for myself… I’m in the midst of planning to make a pattern for this design this year.  I’ve made multiples for myself and it’s such a useful little thing to have!

wearing it during me-made May

Item 7:

a little top for myself.  This is our most recent pattern the Booragoon top, available in our etsy store here  #shamelessplug

Item 8;

a little winter skirt for myself.  This is the Paprika patterns Jade pattern; one I make up usually once a year.  Well, I really like it!  Again, pictured during me-made May…


there’s even a failed Item 9!  I cut out a skirt for Cassie too, but as I was pinning it together for its first seam I noticed a fault, a few holes right across a line of the grain.  By this time I was well and truly over the tomato fabric so it was with some joy that it got tossed into the bin.  No regrets!

So wow, yes that’s still a lot of tomato!!

I may or may not wear all three of my own tomato items together like this; on the one hand I really love this colour.  On the other hand…. well actually there is no other hand really.  I love the colour, so I most like will!  btw, not pictured; but the three items I made for myself each has a “circa 2023” label on it.

Now; to be honest, there is a problem with all of these new makes, well more accurately there is a problem with the fabric… I realised that it was cheap and plentiful for a reason.  The fabric is super stretchy, as in it’s stretching out quite fast and it’s clearly not going to last very long.   Like, probably not longer than this year.  Beware a bargain!  You can see in my miniskirt how the folds do not look super stable and a little stretched out already.  Oh well, just gong to enjoy it while I can  🙂

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I made a dress, a cool skirt and three tops; aka I actually used all of my 2022 labels, yay!

31/12/2022 1:11 pm \ 3 Comments \

I’ve made a few new things, thus appropriately using all my “circa 2022” labels, hurrah!  I know, I know, using up labels should NOT be a criteria for making anything, and yet.. and yet… I still felt compelled to do so.  And these are all things that I am going to be very happy wearing, so I’m ok with it all  🙂

First up!

this dress, another from my self-designed pattern that Cassie and I are working on right now.  I made this one from this dress that I wasn’t wearing any more.  I really loved the large scale check linen, but the length and sheer volume of the dress made it unwieldy if not borderline uncomfortable to wear on the beach…  which let’s face it; is a large part of my life nowadays.  I’m much happier with the fabric usage now since I am more inclined to wear it in this more streamlined iteration!  Technical deets; I had to cut many pieces on the bias and there’s a centre back seam in the back bodice, which shouldn’t be there; but I covered it up with a bias cut strip of dark chocolate cotton.  Mostly to obscure the complete lack of patten matching here, which was visually jarring to my eyes.

Second! a simple little white Booragoon top.  Actually; and Third!  I’ve just remember I made TWO simple little white Booragoon tops; one for Lainey for Christmas, which I have totally failed to photograph.  Picture this top, just in white.

 

 

btw, I didn’t put labels in things I made for others, just because you never know if people are going to get the same kick out of them that I do…   Anyway I made another white one for me too…  pictured on Cassie here.

This is Cassie’s and my Christmas post for our pattern company this year; I’m wearing my mustard Yallingup dress, Cassie is wearing her yellow Booragoon skirt and the aforementioned new little white Booragoon top.  You might be able to see it’s a tiny bit big on her, since it’s my size.

Fourth!  I made a new skirt, using some Ikuntji Artists fabric, that I did purchase during this year, using the voucher that I’d won for this outfit.  The print is called “Mintjinperri”, by Kelly Dixon, which sadly seems to be no longer available.

Having said that though, I think the print is what totally makes the skirt!  Pretty amazing, huh?!  The skirt is partially lined with dark blue lining fabric.

The pattern is my own, another that I am developing right now.  I made it long, with two side splits, and the also split lining is attached to the splits at the sides.

 

Something giving me joy?  sounds a tad obsessive, but I used coffee coloured thread for most of it, including the topstitched hem, which is the only visible stitching on the thing.  A few spots had coffee coloured top-stitching on solid dark blue areas which was a little distressing, so I switched to dark navy blue for these bits.

Fifth!  I made the matching, dark navy-blue Booragoon top.  Well, I still had my pattern pieces out so just cut it out and ran it up very quickly.  I’ve already written just about anything I can think of with regards to the Booragoon, my own pattern, but just know that I’m not making it up again and again just to big note myself, but because I truly love this little pattern right now.  It’s very flattering to my figure, and because it’s sleeveless it goes nicely under cardigans in the summer too.

So that’s it!  The very last of my 2022 labels, and the very last day of the year too.  Seems fitting  🙂

I’m going to try to squeeze in a retrospective post before the VERY end of the day too, so fingers crossed!  If I did, then it’s going to be very obvious, very soon!

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featuring a top and a skirt and some other miscellaneous wearable things

20/12/2022 7:25 pm \ 1 Comment \

I’ve made a new little top and skirt, as well as a few other odds and sods …  so here’s the thing.

I bought a batch of 20x “circa 2022” labels at the beginning of the year, used these up in 6 months, and so bought a second batch of 20.  These are neeeeeeearly finished! and now I’m basically on a mission to use them all by the end of the year.  I have four or five to go… let’s see if I can make it! aieeee, it’s going to be tight!

First up! a little brown top…

this is our own Booragoon top pattern…  and like Cassie with the ones I’ve made for her, I’ve found it to be such a wonderfully comfortable and useful little top to make and wear.  I used the leftovers from this little tee I made for myself at the beginning of the year; scrummy merino from The Fabric Store, in colour Nutmeg, bought last year.

I’m wearing it above with my BamBam Pietra shorts, first blogged here.  The fabric is cotton drill from Spotlight, the shorts are made using Closet Core Pietra pattern, adapted to have no elastic waistband and a centre back zip.

next up! I made a little white skirt…

Yes, it’s kinda of mini-length, thus the tights and boots.  I think it will be a winter skirt!  This is another of my own patterns that I’m hoping to release next year some time.  The fabric is again cotton drill from Spotlight, obviously the same fabric as my BamBam shorts just in the white colour way.   Yes, I really liked it!  It also came in a dark green colour way but I figured I had bought enough already…

The skirt is fully lined and closes with a button and a hook and eye over one of the side pockets.

Here are some other little basics I’ve made recently too, to which I did not attach any labels.  Necessary things, but not really label-worthy things, unfortunately!

A simple double-layered neck warmer using the very last Nutmeg merino as my top, above.

I’ve also made a five more pairs of little sockettes, using the now sadly unobtainable syttochprytt ballerina sock pattern, adjusted as outlined here.

All the fabrics are either leftovers from other things or old T-shirts that I’ve kept for this very purpose.

A brief update: I’m going so well on my not buy any new fabric pledge!  I have to confess to feeling the desire for new fabric every now and then, but have quickly managed to overcome it.  Mostly by forcing myself to go to my stash and sort it out.  Always a great cure!  Anyway, I have plans, lots of lovely plans for the fabric I do have… aaah, so many plans, so little time!

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