A big fashion trend around about these parts currently is the red jeans trend. It is HUGE-o-rama! I do like it too.. however since my husband bought a pair of bright red jeans for himself while in Milan and my daughter…
Tag: Vogue 1247
Pomegranate
Don’t worry if you don’t “get” the title of this post; that’s an in-house joke… 😉 I have made another birthday shirt, this one for Mum. The pattern is Vogue 1247. Yup. This is the seventh butterfly to emerge from…
Keeping the lace pure and undarted in a fitted skirt
My lace design has regular repeating rows of curlicues, scrolls and flower motifs that I felt would have been spoiled by waist shaping darts; also the lace fabric is quite thick and darts would not have sat nice and flat…
All laced up with nowhere to go
I’m joking… of course I’ve got lots of nice places to go 🙂 I’ve made a lace skirt. My very luvverly, very perceptive friends again gave me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday. Ohhh, they know me so well…
Blood Orange
Is it a given that all my Vogue 1247 tops will have citrus-y nomenclature enforced on them? First clementine, and then blood orange……. aaaaand theeeeeeen? We shall see, we shall see about that…. ;D Anyhoo, it was always a…
Sludgy little skirt; 6 different ways
I haven’t done one of these for a while! but that’s OK since I thought May and June came with somewhat of an overload of “daily outfits” posts, no? 😉 I am so thrilled with this little sludgy skirt, made…
Ombre dyed velveteen skirt
So, this is the little dyeing experiment I was referring to; I finished it last night and just couldn’t wait to wear it today! My new skirt! I made the skirt using Vogue 1247, of bright lipstick-red cotton velveteen from Spotlight. I…
Curtaining skirt
It looks plain, but my new skirt has one fun and unusual little fact about its origins. The fabric was part of the bundle of fabrics given to me by my friend C from her late mother’s stash. That’s not…
