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Handwoven "rag-rug" placemats
Another set of hand-woven and -stitched items from my teenage years...and I cannot believe I have so far overlooked these very frequently used items in my documentation process! :OTo the best of my...
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Of the palest blue
I still have one or two really lovely pieces of fabric given to me for pressies last Christmas, as well as from my birthday last year (blush) Beautiful fabrics that I have been too chicken to take the...
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Khaki military shirt; 6 different ways
Oooh, it's been a while since I did one of these posts... which is silly since I do get a big kick out of these myself. Playing in one's wardrobe, the bestest play a grown-up girl can have,...
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HongKong seams and the hemline
Hong Kong seams are a tidy and very handsome way to finish raw edges... but what happens at the hemline? The seam gets folded up on itself twice, and if you are working with a flimsy fabric and...
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Perchance to dream
I have made some rather daggy baggy shorts, but don’t worry. Style has not flown out the window. After today, these are my new summer PJ bottoms!I used a too-small-for-anything-else piece of...
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A petticoat and an ISTJ
OK, so I have posted about this new... er, thingbefore; and in a comment janesewandtell expressed surprise that a petticoat should have a zip ... the answer of course is that even though I did describe...
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Slender Man
Have you ever played Slender?Hands down. Scariest. Game. Ever!Our family has been playing this free-downloadable a bit... and if you can first-time play this in a darkened room without emitting...
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Blood Orange
Is it a given that all my Vogue 1247 tops will have citrus-y nomenclature enforced on them? First clementine, and then blood orange....... aaaaand theeeeeeen?We shall see, we shall see about that.......
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Lemon macarons
It was inevitable.... The lemon glut continues. Coupla lemon cakes a week. Every chicken dish is lemon chicken. Lemon juice squirted on the barbecued fish, whether the kids like it or not. All who...
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Seafoam and sand set
Remember my self-drafted bra? Well this was bound to happen. Once I had started producing some bras with nice, properly finished interiors; the days of that far-from-perfect bra were numbered. When...
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feeling blue
I took this photo during our holiday on Rotto but never put it in with the other travel wardrobe photos... the blue skirt was appearing too often. But I still think it's a nice photo so I decided to...
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Thank you
I just wanted to say a very big thank you for all those kind comments ... I read them all with so much pleasure and felt very much supported and loved by everyone. You are all so lovely!It is so very...
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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...
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You little ripper
Recognise this thing? :DAnd 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...
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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 show...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Pomegranate
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...
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