SWAP! I have had a mammoth dressup-and-selfie session. Aaaaagh! How do models do it?! Please excuse any grim, loopy, vacant or otherwise weird facial expressions that pop up randomly amongst the following pics. The good thing is that I am…
Tag: SWAP
Gold Miette
I have knitted a cardigan. And weeeeeeee! this is the final thing in my eleven piece swap. Finished… hurrah! The Miette is designed by Andi Satterlund, and is available as a free download here. Such a great little pattern.…
“Baseball” skirt and tee
This is just a bit of silliness really; remember I said I had some idiotic plans for my leftover off-white leatherette? well I just hopped straight into it. This is a new skirt, leatherette with red stitching to delineate the seam…
Piped trench
I have made a winter coat for myself! It’s a dark charcoal woollen trench with the seaming and edging accented in pale grey/ivory/bone pleather piping. The charcoal wool has a light gauzy check woven throughout; itself with a teensy houndstooth…
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,…
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…
Issey Miyake tucked dress
I’ve made a new dress. Part of that swap-eroonie…. which does seem like a vague dream from the distant past now; but actually upon which progress has happily been made. *gasp* *self back-pat*. My new dress is from an old Vogue…
Alabama Chanin; a tank top
Fortunately I have managed to finish the matching embroidered tank top to go with my skirt. Hurrah! for plane trips and the resulting enforced hand-sewing time! I’m so happy with the full ensemble; I like how it looks like a…
