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Old things…

17/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Old things…

… this will be the very last of my “old things” posts.  I promise. I’ve done a mammoth sort-through of the photos and I think this is it!  (heaves a sigh of relief…) Firstly, since this is the only garment…

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A sleeveless top, con latte

12/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized46 Comments on A sleeveless top, con latte

I’ve made a new top! This is the little top from Vogue 1248, made of a light cotton voile the colour of pale milky coffee, and with miniature metallic silver polka-dots dotted sweetly all over like a starry starry sky……

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Blue bunches

05/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized26 Comments on Blue bunches

Next up in my Japanese pattern book experiments… When I saw this top in Pattern Magic 3, by Tomoko Nakamichi, I nicknamed it the “bunches” top.  Y’know because the other one on this same page was the “ponytail” top (not…

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Wearing a triangle

03/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on Wearing a triangle

First impressions can be deceiving.  And one’s first impressions of the “Wearing a Triangle” design from Pattern Magic 2 might just be that it is one of the least wearable designs in the book.  That was my own naive silly…

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Pattern Magic 3; ponytail top B

22/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized37 Comments on Pattern Magic 3; ponytail top B

I’ve made an interesting little top…   This from the marvellous book Pattern Magic 3 by Tomoko Nakamichi.  I’ve nicknamed it my “ponytail” top (version B), because of the way the pieces are pulled together, bunched up and held together…

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Having a cuppa…

21/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized12 Comments on Having a cuppa…

Self-stitched September, Day 21 Today’s mini photo challenge, to be eating/drinking. I whipped up a new Tshirt yesterday. Hehe, “whipped-up”, a phrase that is music to the seamster’s ears, no?  Don’t you just love the very thought of it; whipping…

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Unique Clothes, top “p”

19/09/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized25 Comments on Unique Clothes, top “p”

A new top; this one is top “p” from the Japanese pattern book Unique Clothes Any Way You Like, by Natsuno Hiraiwa.  I was intrigued by and loved the look of this little thing from the first, and always knew…

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Ivory blouse

04/08/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized24 Comments on Ivory blouse

I finished a new blouse. This is a project that took me far longer than it should have, actually.  Been working on it for a few weeks! and that is not like me…  I had it nearly finished, and then…

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