It’s a yearly ritual; summer approaching, new bathers. I’m very hard on my bathers. I hardly ever wash the salt water or chlorine out; they get scrumpled up in a wet, sandy, salty towel, left in the boot of the car, dried…
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an Alabama Chanin project; “Magdalena Dusk”
The very lovely Lisa, of Lisa’s Carolina Handmade very kindly sent to me some really beautiful and special fabric; some 100% organic cotton jersey from the Alabama Chanin store in the United States. How sweet is that?!!! I’m so grateful…
paprika cardigan
I took some time out from making something far more time-consuming and complicated, ahem Alabama Chanin, cough cough…. ooo did I once say I would never get addicted to Alabama Chanin??? yaas, going back on my word, guilty as charged!!…
short and rose-y
…some new summer shorts 🙂 Pattern; ye olde faithful Burda 7723. Someone alerted me to the fact that this pattern has been discontinued…. boooo! This is fair dinkum one of my favourite patterns… goodness knows why Burda would let go…
Perry Ellis skirt, sort of
New skirt. The above picture is showing what I actually wore out and about today… please note the far less glamorous shoes than featured in the remainder of this post! Pattern; Vogue 1521, a Perry Ellis design from 1985. Fabric; taupe and white…
some random tips for sewing lingerie
There are a bajillion great posts out there with good tips for sewing lingerie; hopefully this one is adding one or two new pieces of info into the pot… Pattern pieces: If your pattern pieces are half ones it’s well…
mocha set
… for me! Fabric; slithery, slinky-malinki poly knit from Fabulous Fabrics in a divinely luxuriously glossy mocha shade; all elastic and other findings from Homecraft Textiles. I wanted to make a Sierra bra for myself too; and while I love lace-y underthingies,…
pink lace Sierra + Watsons
OK, so I couldn’t resist downloading Madalynne’s free bralette pattern the Sierra and giving it a go! Plus I made the usual two pairs of matching knickers to go with it. These are both the Watson knickers, by Cloth Habit.…
