Y’ello! Calling all sunbeamers 😀 I am taking part in the Travelling Yellow Skirt Freak Show! the brainchild of Melanie aka Miz Bagg at Bag and a Beret; and you can read the story behind the yellow skirt and its…
Tag: top
olive faux suede top
I’ve made a new top 🙂 Yoshimi and I saw this very realistic faux suede while out shopping together in Tokyo last January and we both bought some to make tops. Yoshimi made her lovely pale pink top quite quickly.…
a split-backed top
Once upon a time there was a shirt, a man’s shirt. This shirt was superficially unremarkable, but was made out of a wonderful microfibre that had extraordinarily silk-like properties. Soft, ripply, with a quietly glossy sheen, it felt wonderfully cool…
white linen Olive blouse
Hi peeps; new blouse! Amity of Lolita patterns emailed me a few months ago asking if I would like to test their new blouse pattern, the Olive. Thank you so much Amity! I lurve trying out new patterns! I finished…
Nettie; by seven
The very clever Heather of Closet Case Files has released another pattern, this one is a must-have basic, the bodysuit, available here. Named Nettie, after the totally gorgeous Nettie of Sown Brooklyn. Of course, I say “must-have” and I didn’t…
“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…
Pink Alabama Chanin T-shirt
I’m very happy and pleased that my Mum agreed to let me photograph her wearing her very recently completed hand-dyed-embroidered-and-stitched creation, and to show the pictures here on my blog … thank you so much Mum! This is Mum’s third…
Green pleats, please!
Hello!  🙂 So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green. Definitely far more me 😉  Hoorah for dye!…
