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Lounge room curtains, 2

29/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Lounge room curtains, 2

This is the second set of curtains in our lounge room, opposite the other pair here.  As this window faces the street I made these curtains first, the other set was made a little further down the track, er OK…

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Cute patchwork skirt for a little girl

27/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized2 Comments on Cute patchwork skirt for a little girl

It is my youngest niece’s birthday tomorrow and I wanted to make her a frivolous and girly little skirt because she is luckily still little enough to love pretty dress-up clothes.  A dress I had made her for a previous…

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Lounge room curtains, 1

20/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized5 Comments on Lounge room curtains, 1

One set of my lounge room curtains!  There is another set, which I will post pictures of next week.  I do try to limit my blogging in some ways, as in, yes, I do post every day which may be…

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Winterblue shirt

18/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Winterblue shirt

You’ve heard of “wintergreen”?  Well I’ve decided this is “winterblue”!  You know, a sort of arctic colour scheme and with the snowflake-like print ‘n all…? Today is my son Tim’s birthday, so of course I had to make him a…

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Family room curtains

13/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Family room curtains

Boring curtain alert: As previously warned I do have a preference for the simple and uncluttered look in my house, so my curtains are not going to win any awards for innovation here… that being said I feel these curtains…

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Bedroom curtains

08/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized4 Comments on Bedroom curtains

Here are the curtains I made for our master bedroom.  Oh, I did warn you that most of my curtains were simply boring rectangles… so I hope expectations haven’t been raised too high… I expect my curtains to be simple…

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Pacific Blue shirt

07/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Pacific Blue shirt

Today is my youngest’s birthday!  And as his shirt collection is sparse and he has about as much enthusiasm for clothes shopping as many of us reserve for root canal treatment I decided to surprise him with a new addition…

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“Jailbreak” dress

02/06/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on “Jailbreak” dress

Remember this fabric and pattern? Well I made it up over the weekend and submitted a review of the pattern to Pattern Review.  I’m still getting the hang of that site.  The other day I realised (lightbulb going off!) that…

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