Hello! I’ve got a small handful of new stuff to show off present … four things to be precise! Firstly, two sage green/pale coffee, checked tweed skirts. I inherited this beautiful quality piece of wool tweed from my grandmother’s stash after she…
Tag: Vogue 8363
a palace skirt
The latest instalment in my quest to “fun up” Cassie’s work wardrobe… I dub thee the Palace skirt. Fabric a soft, heavy, slightly stretch sateen from Fabulous Fabrics. Of course. Pattern; Vogue 8363, my other favourite skirt pattern. Those discreet, yet deep,…
the difficulty of black lace…
… is in getting it to show up in a picture. My new skirt looks completely boringly plain in these pictures, which just proves it; the camera does lie! Actually it has a rather beautiful lace appliquéd tulle overlay. I guess…
Patched pockets
Just to provide further proof of my predilection for unusual clothing … please allow me to present my new skirt. This skirt is the love-child of four old pairs of jeans. They were a bit battered but in favourite colours,…
Big baggy pockets…
… with bonus skirt. It is an unusual skirt, admittedly. That’s OK. One description could focus on the fact that it is softly creamy in shade, ever-so-slightly crinkly in texture, interestingly layered in construction, and easily breezily comfortably summery as…
Thoughts on hem lengths; linings and slips
One of my wardrobe renovations performed lately was to shorten this skirt by a good several inches; a super quickie reno, but one that nevertheless completely transformed this skirt for me from something that almost caused me to shudder whenever…
Just a spot of emerald
Top o’ the mornin’ evenin’ to you!! St Patricks day seemed an appropriate occasion to pull out this length of emerald green corduroy from the stash and make it up into something. Anything. I bought this fabric from Spotlight, last…
Pisces II
… the other fish! Because we all know Pisces has two fish, right? 🙂 although I’m afraid the best I could eke out was one and a half fish from the length I had! I made a skirt for myself from the remains…
