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,…
Tag: Wardrobe Refashion
some tops
I’ve made a couple of new tops lately 🙂 I’ve made this design once before so I knew I’d like this new one too. It is a modified version of the loose draped top from drape drape, by Hisako Sato. Modified…
Experiments in Alabama Chanin
There has been progress; I’ve been mucking about with Alabama Chanin stooff, partially making a little fitted tank top to test for size and to allow me to get a feel for the techniques. It’s only half finished, and I’ve set…
Gunmetal linen trousers to jacket-y thing
So new top… well, new? not really, this funky little jacket was until recently a pair of menswear-inspired, wide-legged, linen trousers, that have been sitting in my re-fashioning bag for a coupla years now. True! I took them out to wear as fancy…
Snowy-white Nougat
The clever AnaJan of Stepalica is designing patterns now! and I was honoured when she very kindly sent to me her debut design, the Nougat dress to try out. Thank you so much Ana! The Nougat is a classic, waisted, sleeveless A-line dress with…
Wedgwood blue damask, reworked
With the fingers of spring tickling at the edges of our days, I’ve been renovating my wardrobe. And came across this dress… Although the dress had a sorta sporty feel to it and I think my style is vaguely sorta sporty? maybe?…
the Panellist
I’ve made a new dress! a dress comprised of panels and bands. This is Vogue 1316 and I made it using three pairs of old corduroy jeans, ivory, chocolate and a faded black; plus a piece of new black corduroy, itself…
Browning a couple of things
Remember my Sew Bossy dress, below? It was very… sweet, wasn’t it? I mean, I wish I could wear really pretty things like that, but I think I cannot! But I thought it had promise, it just needed de-twee-ing. before…
