On the “news” * the other night they had a little segment where Kmart introduced their new range of $5 bras, which is insanely cheap… and all over again I got to thinking about why I make my own in the…
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little floral dress; donna karan for vogue
I’ve made this new dress! every year my dear friends give me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday… it’s taken me a little while but I finally got around to spending it and making my birthday dress! Pattern; Vogue…
deep teal, suedette dove blouse
Hey! I’ve made a new blouse. It’s the Dove blouse by Megan Nielsen patterns, in an lightweight but warm, faux suede from Spotlight. So, the recommended fabrics for this pattern are shirt-weight stuff like voile and crepe de chine and chambray and linen… not…
golden brown
hello! I’ve made this new blouse… I was having trouble thinking of a way to describe the colour, since the only thing coming to my mind was those white puffball fungi that upon “puffing” send forth a little cloud of smelly spores that…
terracotta axel skirt
Hey! I’ve made this new skirt. Actually I’ve made lots of new things lately and just haven’t yet blogged them… oops! Getting onto that, asap! Hehe, actually a good thing about me-made May is that it kinda forces me to blog as yet unblogged…
the year of handmade, 4
gday howzit going, yeah good thanks. (Aussie terms of great endearment) So, I’ve been going for four months now wearing 100% made-by-myself clothing and shoes, yay! I’m a third of the way through! Only eight months to go!!! Oh dear, that’s…
winter boots
I MADE THESE!!! OK, maybe I’m a bit biased here, but to my eyes these are just about the most beautiful things in the world right now!! So I finally did it! and I’m even extremely happy with them to boot (haha!) and…
a Japanese indigo dress
I’ve made another Yoshimi dress 🙂 Pattern: Vogue 2900. This pattern will always be in my head the “Yoshimi dress” since her versions are all very inspiring to me, and as well, the lovely Yoshimi herself personally recommended it for me, so there…
