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the year of handmade, 11

24/01/201724/01/2017 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized20 Comments on the year of handmade, 11

above are just a small selection of some of my favourite outfits for the last month, the entire collection for the year so far can be viewed in my Year of Handmade flickr album, here So, a mere 30 days to go……

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finishing an edge with bias binding

14/01/201714/01/2017 CarolynUncategorized35 Comments on finishing an edge with bias binding

Now, I promised to write this tutorial to show my Mum how I applied this finish to her top… and others expressed an interest too; thank you so much to everyone else who did… I finally did it, yay  😉 Mostly I would use this…

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2016; a retrospective

31/12/201601/01/2017 Carolynfashion, Uncategorized34 Comments on 2016; a retrospective

Soooo.  It’s the last day of 2016.  Cheers! and here’s to the year that was… *chinks champers flutes*   Mwah, mwah, darlings! Kicking off with my favourite ootd/blog pictures, just one for each month…  Apart from January, well obviously I did not…

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… some clothes for Cassie

30/12/201614/01/2017 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized17 Comments on … some clothes for Cassie

… and finally, I made some clothes for Cassie for her Christmas pressies too.  At first I had wanted to make some luggage or a travel set for her too; but we were hanging out in Spotlight together, you know…

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a whole swag of bags (portside by grainline)

26/12/201626/05/2018 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized32 Comments on a whole swag of bags (portside by grainline)

I haven’t felt like blogging very much, but absolutely must otherwise I’m going to get SO far behind… it’s time to get back on the wagon.  I’ve been super busy busy BUSY, sewing up Christmas and birthday presents; including this bunch…

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thank you

26/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized7 Comments on thank you

To everyone who left such caring and lovely thoughtful words on Sienna’s last post, thank you so very much.  Your kindness has meant so much to me, more than I can say. picture from 1 year ago, Bunkers Bay

Sienna

16/12/201616/12/2016 CarolynUncategorized176 Comments on Sienna

This is the hardest post that I never wanted to write, but I feel I owe this to all my lovely long term readers who have over the years come to know our darling, dear old lovely girl, Sienna… She’s been here…

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Japanese Liberty shirt for Craig

04/12/201604/12/2016 Carolynsewing, Uncategorized45 Comments on Japanese Liberty shirt for Craig

Hello!  I’ve been sewing a new shirt for Craig… and feel quite bad actually because we bought this fabric for him during our visit to Japan last January… nearly a whole year ago!  Yes, I feel terrible. Anyway, now it…

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