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lux trousers and some more random cushions

hello! I’ve made some more things lately… Firstly, some new trousers.  I used a new pattern, the Fibremood Lux trousers.  Lately I’m more interested in trousers/jeans etc with a flat front and no...

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Innes nice?

… so I made another thing recently… well two actually, but only one really, in the end.  The first was Not Good… Hello Innes dress, and welcome to my wardrobe… a pattern by Homer & Howells. That...

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Maldives; a travel wardrobe

hello!  So as hinted in my new bathers post just recently, we have been on an absolutely gorgeous holiday to the Maldives… this is our third visit, each time as well as this time staying on Velassaru....

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Christmas prep

Hello, Christmas makes!!  To be honest though my output is quite modest this year, I haven’t gone overboard with the making of Christmas gifts unlike previous years.   Just a few little things… I’d...

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black/white striped jumper

hurrah! I’ve just finished my knitted project for December, aka the last monthly knit for the year! and possibly the last made thing for the year, depends whether I can get my already cut-out thing...

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2024; a retrospective

Hello!  it’s the very last day of the year, which for this blog is the day that I look back on my year of making/creating/wearing and summarise such things… first off, here’s a favourite outfit/photo...

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pink gingham

hello! I’m pleased that I made productive use of the Christmas break and managed to make a new thing… I used the very last of my “made in 2024” tags in the little breast pocket.  Honestly, the dress...

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pool

how beautiful is this fabric?!  My daughter Cassie designed this very pretty, inviting and perfectly summery scene and of course her proud mother had to buy some.  The name of the print is “public...

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a checquered tale of a checkered dress

I’ve made a simple little dress…  Now I have to admit that such apparent simplicity is actually the anticlimactic outcome of a long, convoluted sewing-and-unpicking, journey which I’m a little...

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tie dyed prettiness

I bought this pretty raspberry/cream tie dye cotton? jersey from Stone Mountain fabrics in San Francisco during my trip over there with Yoshimi in late 2019… always with the intention of making a new...

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