Nothing in this post is write-home-about exciting, but I have been laying down some handy layering basics for the cooler days that will be coming up …. sometime? … 🙂 I’m thinking ahead, to autumn. Planning, you know. Being organised …
Tag: top
Top; Gone a bit Batty
My latest project. Do you like the name? I know, right? I could get a job at Anthropologie, thinking up delightfully poetic tag-lines for the clothing, for sure. I am sometimes capable of romanticism, and dreaming up evocative monikers, conjuring…
My darling Clementine
I have made a new top! A nice floaty loose top perfect for our fiercely hot summer days. And we’ve sure had a few stiflers lately :S so I will be wearing it immediatemente. I used Rowan shot cotton… again.…
Blue-collar crime
The charge; gratuitously making for myself the same shirt, a second time. Namely the Vogue 1248 triple collared shirt. Well, how many collars does a girl really need?? (tsk tsk) No plea entered, as the defendant is so clearly guilty as charged.…
Blue bunches top; 6 different ways
I thought this little top, from p58 of “Pattern Magic 3” by Tomoko Nakamichi (seen first here), might be a versatile little thing from the very first, since I tried wearing it both frontwards and backwards and it looked equally…
Dreaming, of chocolate
Y’know how you see some patterns, and you’re like, oh so easy!! but you go ahead and buy or trace-out or copy-as-exactly-as-possible anyway? That’s how I felt with this Tshirt pattern; top 106 from Burdastyle magazine 06/2011. I just…
Crescent moon
Now my new little top here is a very quick and easy, yet still interesting design. And like all the designs from the Pattern Magic series; very very clever too, and another example of a “why hasn’t anyone thought of…
Bamboo shoot
…that is the name of this top; my latest foray into Pattern Magic, by Tomoko Nakamichi. The folds/tucks on the front of the design are like the new shoots on bamboo, spraying out to each side in graduated offset arcs. I chose…
