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simple buttoned cuff
This is an understated little feature to jazz up the end of a plain sleeve. It's mainly decorative rather than useful, but I think it does look kinda cute :)To add this, you will need to cut your...
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patchwork Sandpoint top
I've made a new top. Well, kinda new from old actually, since it's made from 4 old Tshirts cut up and patched together. My refashioning bag yielded; a light purply-brown from Craig, two pinks from...
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a natty little nightie
This was a need. A very desperate need.My lovely, fluffy, cosy, snuggly warm winter PJ's are rapidly becoming unbearably so, meaning...IT'S SUMMER NIGHTIE TIME!!!! I wanted the "IT'S CLOBBERING...
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nani IRO blouse
I've made a new top. It is a plain little top, but to my eyes the lovely thing about it is the fabric; a beautifully soft cotton gauze, and the charming hand-painted look to its print.A short...
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floral bathers
Bathers!Pattern; old fave McCalls 2772, with the halter neck bikini top modified to be a tankini.Fabric; one-way stretch from Fabulous Fabrics. I just randomly fancied floral this year. I was...
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Oriental Bird
I was tempted to call this my other Swedish dress, since I bought this fabric in Stockholm as one of my wearable souvenirs from our Scandinavian holiday, but actually the fabric is English! I bought...
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Watson lingerie set in sand cotton jersey
I just could not resist buying Watson, the new lingerie pattern designed by Amy of Cloth Habit. Yes, I have a few lingerie patterns now, but a few points of difference with this one allowed me to talk...
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travel wardrobe; Melbourne
Aah, I've been away! on a short but most delightfully fun girlie jaunt to Melbourne with my mother and my daughter.I have about a zillion photos of mind-blowingly beautiful clothing, some of which I...
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fun with gingerbread
*sings* Have yourself a very gingerbread-y Christmas...Gingerbread! Gingerbread madness :)I love the stuff but I pretty much never make it. Until I do and then it seems like I become temporarily...
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a bevy of beauties
I can now share the fruits of my Christmas shirt-making bendah!! Old news? oh well...I made four shirts recently. Yes, four! *phew* all since I returned home from Melbourne. I know. Sheer insanity....
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Cassie's Christmas ensemble
So, this year I asked Cassie what she would like for Christmas and she replied without hesitation, a long, white skirt.Alrighty then!I bought both fabrics at my local Spotlight; I considered buying...
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2014; a retrospective
So, on the last day of the year I like to look back upon some of my favourite sewing creations/outfits/pictures for the year, one for each...
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Setting an invisible zip in a French seam
... as promised, and thank you to everyone who showed an interest :)And, just saying; I am a believer that there is no necessarily right or wrong way to do anything in sewing, but whatever works and...
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2015 plans
Hello!I've been thinking about my 2015 wardrobe requirements and sewing plans for this year. To be honest I was kinda shocked at the sheer number of things I sewed last year, and not in a good way!...
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"poison dart frog" lingerie set
Sounds like a weird inspiration for a lingerie set? Well this is my thing for prttynpnk's Jungle January :)I really wanted to do something a bit different, something other than big-catty. I googled...
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#hoodie
I love hoodies. And I love dark browns, crinkly linen and loose relaxed-fit comfy loungewear. Despite all those loves, it's taken me a ridiculously long time to finish this hoodie. I started it...
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red gingham
... new dress!I feel like I've been wearing the same little summer dresses over and over and over. Not that there's anything wrong with that! because I like them all :) but a few of my standbys are...
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Carolyn pyjamas
I was supremely flattered when Heather of Closet Case patterns contacted me to ask if it was ok to name her latest pattern after me… wow, seriously?!!!!!! *deeply flattered moment*So the Carolyn...
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dress of plastic splattered linen
I've made a summery little dress for myself.This is dress F from the Japanese pattern book Stylish Dress Book, by Yoshiko Tsukiori. I've made this pattern up once before here, and that polka dot...
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Red dress; 6 different ways
It's been a while since I did one of these! I don't really have deliberate dress-up sessions to test out my clothes' versatility any more, but it's still interesting for me to look back and get a...
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