I made myself a cardigan; a quick fix project out of some stash fabric… and put together a little tutorial. I did another cardigan tutorial back here, but this one is a leeetle different, although using the same pattern… The…
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On piping, and puffy sleeves…
I bought a second Vogue pattern during the recent half price sale, Vogue 1152 at right… and have been making it up using some cheap chambray cotton. And was all happily whizzing along and halfway through when I realised I…
Cute patchwork skirt for a little girl
It is my youngest niece’s birthday tomorrow and I wanted to make her a frivolous and girly little skirt because she is luckily still little enough to love pretty dress-up clothes. A dress I had made her for a previous…
Adding a lining to a finished skirt
My bottle green basic skirt has had an update! Well, not one you’d see, but one that will make it tons more wearable in my winter repertoire; I’ve added a lining. The first few times I wore this in autumn…
Knotty blue scarf
It’s been an embarrassingly long while since I did a re-fashion. My big bag of toss-out garments is still sitting there, taunting me. And this re-fashion is so … trite, it’s barely worth the label “re-fashion”. Still, in my defence,…
Anatomy of a ball dress, pt 2
I apologise for the lack of progress pictures on this dress. Pretty much I’ve had heaps of work and errands to catch up on, and am restricted to sewing in a more limited amount of spare time than I’m used…
Anatomy of a ball dress, pt 1
I’ve made a start on my ball dress. Although I was a bit late to get started on it I’m making up for lost time now. Yesterday I did more sewing on my daughter’s dress than I did on my…
“Black-adder” cardigan
I finished this cardigan just before we set out on our trek but didn’t get time to do a post about it. Do you remember me mentioning some rubber/plastic coated jersey knit, stamped in a kind of scaly print that…
