Handmade by Carolyn

Thoughts on sewing, knitting, and looking my best

  • Home
  • about me
  • my patterns

Tag: Wardrobe Refashion

A double-sleeved shirt

04/01/201215/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on A double-sleeved shirt

Remember I said I had made 6 shirts over the past month and a half?  well here ’tis t’ sixth! This blue shirt was was intended for one of my boys and was pretty much finished, but I was getting…

Read More→

Dreaming, of chocolate

29/11/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized14 Comments on Dreaming, of chocolate

Y’know how you see some patterns, and you’re like, oh so easy!! but you go ahead and buy or trace-out or copy-as-exactly-as-possible anyway?   That’s how I felt with this Tshirt pattern; top 106 from Burdastyle magazine 06/2011.  I just…

Read More→

Harvey Two-Face

30/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized18 Comments on Harvey Two-Face

So, we don’t do Halloween here in Australia.   But in the last few years; each year it seems my children are attending parties that have a Halloween theme.  Different from how it is in other countries; just invited kids…

Read More→

Turning old jeans into a skirt…

24/10/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized30 Comments on Turning old jeans into a skirt…

…  I decided it was high time for another refashion since I still have a small mountain of perfectly good fabric in the form of old clothing sitting in my stash.  eep!  Do you remember these jeans?   They had…

Read More→

Red Emperor, or Catch of the Day

15/05/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized43 Comments on Red Emperor, or Catch of the Day

The theme for this year’s Amanda Young Foundation Ball was “Nautical, but Nice”   (If you have time, click on the link and view the information video on meningococcal disease.  Having this knowledge could save a life…) As usual I…

Read More→

Introducing Mum…

14/05/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on Introducing Mum…

I will say straight out this amazingly beautiful ensemble is not made by me but by my Mum here.  I had to put a picture of it here, because I couldn’t resist; Mum will never ever get herself a blog…

Read More→

The dress that wanted to be a skirt

31/03/201115/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized19 Comments on The dress that wanted to be a skirt

This skirt was originally a dress.  I posted about my dissatisfaction with it here, and Terri brilliantly commented that she thought this dress wanted to be a skirt.  Well, that revelation was like a bucket of cold water over my…

Read More→

A boxy little jacket; a refashion

30/12/201015/12/2015 CarolynUncategorized37 Comments on A boxy little jacket; a refashion

I’m so pleased with this latest refashion that I finished just yesterday, that I just had wear it even though it’s really too hot for this time of year… I took an old pair of too big, light cotton twill…

Read More→

Posts pagination

Previous 1 … 7 8 9 … 12 Next
Copyright © All rights reserved.
Blog Kit by WP Charms
Switch to desktop version
↑
↓