First garment for the year! The credit for the cute pocket and the funky piecing and top-stitching goes to Mum of course 😉 Yes, remember this Vogue 8561 skirt that she made, and passed on to me because she didn’t like…
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A self-rolling edge finish for knits
This is a sweet and pretty finish to apply to the edges of casual knit garments… and a more neatly-finished-on-the-inside edging, if slightly more involved, than a similar one I wrote previously. This is the edging technique used for this…
2012; a retrospective
Here we are, the very last day of the year! and a good time to reflect… was the year fabulous? was it awful? was it so humdrum we now cannot remember a single thing? Of course, the beauty of having…
Extras…
Hmmm, I’m going to have to squeeze a few lobbed-in-together Christmas-make posts, or I am not going to finish this biz before the end of the year! Firstly; as I am sure everyone is aware 😉 Christmases here are HOT!…
As blue as; Cassie’s Christmas dress
Last up: Cassie! and I made a dress for Cassie for Christmas this year; this is the loose drape tank-top from drape drape by Hisako Sato. I used a thin cotton jersey, printed in an interesting fractured pixels design of…
White Christmas; Craig’s Christmas shirt
I made a shirt for Craig for Christmas too; and used er, hehehe; Burda 7767 again! I bought some very nice white cotton broadcloth from Spotlight; and the buttons are also from Spotlight. Actually, this shirt is a response to…
Stripey Sam; Sam’s Christmas shirt
Next up; Sam! and I made a shirt for his Christmas pressie too. Ohhhh yes, I have been a very very busy bee lately! I used Burda 7767, and blue and white striped fabric from the Fabric Store, Melbourne… bought during…
Chocolate with a little zing; Tim’s Christmas shirt
I made a shirt for our eldest son for a Christmas pressie… using Burda 7767 (surprise!!) and some lovely deeply sludgy, purply-chocolate linen bought from the Fabric Store in Melbourne during our September visit there, and I found the perfect…
