Don’t worry if you don’t “get” the title of this post; that’s an in-house joke… 😉 I have made another birthday shirt, this one for Mum. The pattern is Vogue 1247. Yup. This is the seventh butterfly to emerge from…
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Cement worker
I made a shirt for Dad’s birthday 🙂 I used Burda 7767 custom-fit to his size that I fine-tuned with last year’s shirt, and a fine-grade linen from Spotlight in a shade called “cement”. Very appropriate for a man like my…
Keeping the lace pure and undarted in a fitted skirt
My lace design has regular repeating rows of curlicues, scrolls and flower motifs that I felt would have been spoiled by waist shaping darts; also the lace fabric is quite thick and darts would not have sat nice and flat…
All laced up with nowhere to go
I’m joking… of course I’ve got lots of nice places to go 🙂 I’ve made a lace skirt. My very luvverly, very perceptive friends again gave me a Fabulous Fabrics voucher for my birthday. Ohhh, they know me so well…
A Public Service Announcement
We interrupt our normal blogging schedule to bring you an important public service health announcement… Please read carefully. This information could save lives. Recent clinical trials have shown that daily ingestion of one (1) lime macaron with lime curd filling…
A pretty little thing
Cassie made a top. I know, yes; it really does say handmade by me at the top of this blog and I did not make this lovely, but wait; there is a logical explanation… I am posting it here mostly to…
You little ripper
Recognise this thing? 😀 And something else looks familiar too… oh that’s right, I have shown this dress here before already. But there has been a small but significant alteration… can you spot it? No? I wore this dress for…
Kitchen witch
Some kitchen couture!! With all the gorgeous aprons popping up in the sewing blogging world at the mo’ I thought I should show why I did not take part in the big sew-along this time… you see; I have a…
