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Green pleats, please!
Hello! :)So what’s new here? Just a colour, really. My Issey Miyake pleated top (vogue 1142) used to be a cheerful daffodil yellow, and now it is a murky-lurky, swampy, toxic-waste shade of green....
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Pink Alabama Chanin T-shirt
I'm very happy and pleased that my Mum agreed to let me photograph her wearing her very recently completed hand-dyed-embroidered-and-stitched creation, and to show the pictures here on my blog ...thank...
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Patched pockets
Just to provide further proof of my predilection for unusual clothing ... please allow me to present my new skirt.This skirt is the love-child of four old pairs of jeans. They were a bit battered but...
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leatherette/pleather piping
I have a word of advice for anyone considering putting leatherette piping in a garment.Don't.There, I think that just about covers it ;)Haha, I'm kidding... but seriously now, leather/ette detailing...
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Piped trench
I have made a winter coat for myself! It's a dark charcoal woollen trench with the seaming and edging accented in pale grey/ivory/bone pleather piping. The charcoal wool has a light gauzy check woven...
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"Baseball" skirt and tee
This is just a bit of silliness really; remember I said I had some idiotic plans for my leftover off-white leatherette? well I just hopped straight into it. This is a new skirt, leatherette with red...
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Inside Out
Meggipeg alerted me to the fact that today, 24th April, is Fashion Revolution Day; thank you Megan! and it was lovely to finally hang out together, in person :)So I am wearing my dress and my cardigan...
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Gold Miette
I have knitted a cardigan. And weeeeeeee! this is the final thing in my eleven piece swap. Finished... hurrah! The Miette is designed by Andi Satterlund, and is available as a free download here....
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SWAP; in conclusion
SWAP! I have had a mammoth dressup-and-selfie session. Aaaaagh! How do models do it?! Please excuse any grim, loopy, vacant or otherwise weird facial expressions that pop up randomly amongst the...
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Nettie; by seven
The very clever Heather of Closet Case Files has released another pattern, this one is a must-have basic, the bodysuit, available here. Named Nettie, after the totally gorgeous Nettie of Sown...
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White linen dress with patchwork
Hello! I'm wearing a new dress. The cool fingers of winter are tickling at the edges of our days so obviously I had to make a light and fluttery, floaty white linen thing for myself. It was only...
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Olive Frankenstein skirt
I am notoriously bad at tossing out old scraps of fabric. Particularly if I really really like the colour. And I really really like olive.So; after finishing my patched pockets skirt I still had some...
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white linen Olive blouse
Hi peeps; new blouse!Amity of Lolita patterns emailed me a few months ago asking if I would like to test their new blouse pattern, the Olive. Thank you so much Amity! I lurve trying out new patterns!...
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A hasty pruning before an imminent downpour
It's too early for pruning, technically speaking. Purists would tut.But I figured the rain was just about to decimate them anyway. It was a rescue mission.So; y'know that moment when you're poised in...
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Further Alabama Chanin-ing
Hello! I am getting started on my next Alabama Chanin project.Yes, an authentically executed Alabama Chanin creation is a big time commitment but I really enjoyed making my 3-piece set and it is nice...
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Navy blue tights
I really really wanted some navy blue tights. Basically I have two, yes, two! navy blue corduroy skirts for winter, and a coupla hand-knit cardigans including this one which are mainly midnight blue...
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Incredi-Yellow!
I think every year I seem compelled to make for myself one skirt in some extremely garish shade. This year isn't get away scot free either.I bought this brilliant daffodil yellow pin-wale corduroy...
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Lolly-pink lingerie set
Fulfilling a need rather than a want, I made another lingerie set for myself. It's not speccie* but just a bread-and-butter everyday set, with a Tshirt bra and two pairs of matching plain undies. The...
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Little black polka-dots
I've made a dotty little cardigan :) Yes, it seems like I'm turning out new stuff everyday, but the truth is that some of my recent items have been finished for up to a few weeks or more and it is...
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More on sewing knit bands
eleynagomez asked how I made the thumbhole bands on my Nettie bodysuit, thank you so much for asking!I didn't take any pictures while I was making the real thing but I sat down this weekend and ran up...
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