In the midst of catastrophe; a funny story, this snippet from Saturday’s West Australian. Please enjoy. It certainly gave me a laugh. That poor moggy! In regards to the bushfire; the firefighters saved about 370 homes in the path of…
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The day of the bushfires
(Wrote all this yesterday, but our internet here is being veeery dodgy at the mo) Thank you Robyn, for your thoughtful well-wishes; our family and house are safe. I was a little bit concerned about my parents who are both active in…
Hot (pink) pants
G’day, peops! Remember when I mentioned a piece of hot pink linen that had befriended me in the fabric store and then beseeched me to give it a new home and some purpose in its life? (ahem) Well I’ve done the…
Crescent moon
Now my new little top here is a very quick and easy, yet still interesting design. And like all the designs from the Pattern Magic series; very very clever too, and another example of a “why hasn’t anyone thought of…
Ginger shot cotton shirt
Dad had a special birthday recently, and I made a shirt for him! Photographed here in his natural habitat… I used shot cotton in Ginger, which has a bright-ish ruby-red warp and an intensely curry-yellow weft; two colours which combine to make…
Bamboo shoot
…that is the name of this top; my latest foray into Pattern Magic, by Tomoko Nakamichi. The folds/tucks on the front of the design are like the new shoots on bamboo, spraying out to each side in graduated offset arcs. I chose…
Old things…
… this will be the very last of my “old things” posts. I promise. I’ve done a mammoth sort-through of the photos and I think this is it! (heaves a sigh of relief…) Firstly, since this is the only garment…
Khaki skinny jeans; 6 different ways
It’s hilarious to me now how when I had first set out to make these jeans I was slightly skeptical whether I would wear them much… they have so become the backbone to so many outfits! I think I was…
