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Cut-out things

09/03/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized23 Comments on Cut-out things

I made this little lace jacket/cardi/top thing many years ago, probably ten years ago! way before I started my blog, but even though it has appeared here a coupla times I’ve just realised it’s never been shown, as it were.…

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the paper doll project, and a thermal

25/02/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized29 Comments on the paper doll project, and a thermal

20th – 25th February(I’ve pledged to wear only clothes handmade by me this year and to sketch my daily outfits in my Fashionary.  I’m calling this the paper doll project) from left: Japanese print dress pistachio linen top, lime print…

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Shell-pink pleats, please!

05/02/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized63 Comments on Shell-pink pleats, please!

I have made a little top for Cassie to wear to work.  Or wherever she pleases, of course  ðŸ™‚ This is Vogue 1142, which I made in yellow silk for myself last month.  Cassie admired it so I offered to…

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Drape-ity drape

19/01/201315/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized53 Comments on Drape-ity drape

I have made a new top and a new skirt!  and am combining the two new garments in one post; since they kinda go together so well and all, and actually the skirt is so… well, bland and basic that…

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Yellow pleats. please!

10/01/201325/09/2020 CarolynUncategorized49 Comments on Yellow pleats. please!

  Yes, my title is swiped shamelessly from Issey Miyake’s famous 1993 collection, but I reckon that is OK since this is an Issey Miyake design  😉 And you’ve probably noticed that it is yellow.  A yellow top.  Very yellow.  Quaite…

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As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress

28/12/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress

Last up: Cassie! and I made a dress for Cassie for Christmas this year; this is the loose drape tank-top from drape drape by Hisako Sato.  I used a thin cotton jersey, printed in an interesting fractured pixels design of…

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Blood Orange top; 6 different ways

19/12/201219/06/2016 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized22 Comments on Blood Orange top; 6 different ways

Hey y’all peeps. I’ve been having a play around with my blood orange Vogue 1247 top… trying out different ways to wear it. So… I might have said this before, once, or twice, or twenty times  😉  but I absolutely love brainstorming in my…

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Pomegranate

23/11/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized32 Comments on Pomegranate

Don’t worry if you don’t “get” the title of this post; that’s an in-house joke…  ðŸ˜‰ I have made another birthday shirt, this one for Mum. The pattern is Vogue 1247.  Yup.  This is the seventh butterfly to emerge from…

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