I’ve finally finished my latest Alabama Chanin project… Below is how it appeared on this blog previously…? (shudder) well, that dress has undergone extensive renovation over the past five months and now at last, I am quite satisfied. I received…
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watercolour silk dress
I’ve made a new dress 🙂 Every year, my friends give me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday; aaaah! they know me so well…! 🙂 and last year I spent it on this gorgeous, water-colour-y silk charmeuse. And have…
purple skirt, with “tulip” pockets
I’ve made a new skirt. This new skirt is un-noteworthy except that I gave it some rather unusual little side pockets. They sit down at the hem, inserted in off-set side seams. They’re not very big pockets, just a nice…
Cassie’s terracotta dress
I made this belated birthday present for Cassie; we recently went on a girly shopping expedition together for her birthday present and spent hours browsing, looking at pretty things, chatting, having hot chocolate and enjoying ourselves! we had lots of…
Inseam arrow welt pockets
My example shows a skirt pocket with a 16cm length opening edge bordered by 1cm width welts, although obviously all measurements can easily be altered to give any width of welt or pocket desired. Apply a strip of iron-on interfacing…
High-waisted apricot skirt
I’ve made a new skirt; a high-waisted, knee-length straight skirt, with a self-belt, long double belt loops and in-seam arrow welt pockets. This is skirt 114 from the Solo in White collection from Burda style magazine 04/2014. I’ve waxed lyrical…
Red dress; 6 different ways
It’s been a while since I did one of these!  I don’t really have deliberate dress-up sessions to test out my clothes’ versatility any more, but it’s still interesting for me to look back and get a general overview of just…
dress of plastic splattered linen
I’ve made a summery little dress for myself. This is dress F from the Japanese pattern book Stylish Dress Book, by Yoshiko Tsukiori. I’ve made this pattern up once before here, and that polka dot dress is still in…
