My dear friend Yoshimi sent to me a beautiful birthday present last year; some really beautiful, deep indigo blue linen gauze… The colour is quite glorious, not a solid colour but mottled and variegated with plenty of depth and character;…
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white Issey Miyake shirt
Self-explanatory, really. #endblogpost 😉 Pattern; Vogue 1384. It’s a vintage pattern, hailing from 1984, sorry. Yeah, it’s annoying when people make things in vintage patterns that you can’t get a hold of anymore. But I’m sure this is not particularly aspirational…
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……
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…
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…
… 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…
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…
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
