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rusty drapey dress
I made a new dress! The pattern is Vogue 1343, a Tracy Reese design; and I used this beautifully thin and slightly crisp georgette from Minerva in colour Rust… The fabric is gorgeous, yes? I really...
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baby
Our new baby grandson is here!!! We’re so excited and thrilled with him, he’s such a beautiful baby boy, speaking in a totally non-biased way, of course!! note: so clearly above photo is NOT of new...
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rusty lace Cissy dress (Homer and Howells)
I’ve made this rather awesome new dress, if I say so myself!! Paprika!! Rust!! Kinda… burnt orange/dark red/burgundy/wine!!! It has a strongly autumnal-flavour in colour and feel, but actually...
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cute little love hearts
So, I’m full on in the midst of a mad maelstrom of sewing for Cassie and D’s wedding right now, but managed to whip up another little something for myself… and this is the second of my nominated...
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floral frikka with matching skirt
… so here are a few things I made earlier! like; along with everything else that’s been going on I can barely remember when I made them. Honestly, I’m really missing writing for my blog lately, and...
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garden tea party hat
Short and sweet; I made a hat!! Well, by “made”; more accurately; I compiled a hat. I bunged a whole lot of pretty things onto a hat. Oh I did make that little tea cup, so I guess I can lay claim...
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delicious Delice
Hello! I know I said wedding sewing would be the next thing I posted here but I’m not quite ready to write about that yet. However yes, we had the wedding, it was wonderful and all is well. In the...
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mother of the bride
So, I made this beautiful (I think) dress for Cassie’s wedding. I had early settled upon the beautiful bohemian Carole dress by Fibre Mood … for several reasons. Firstly; I already have the pattern...
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bridesmaids
Cassie wanted her three cousins, my brother’s three daughters, to be her bridesmaids; and look how beautiful they are! It was so much fun and a totally lovely and enjoyable experience for me to make...
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Cassie’s wedding dress
Oh hey! I made a dress for my daughter! it’s a rather special one actually… So where to begin…well of course I’m teasing; my darling girl recently married her man D and this is her wedding dress,...
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paper-bag waist
I’ve just made these ridiculously comfy trousers! perfect for lounging around while you do your work-from-home thing in these newly strange and scary times. I adore them unreservedly. Well, it’s...
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I sewed selflessly
So, I sewed some stuff! Item A; a dress for Mum to wear to Cassie’s wedding… I started out with Burda style 09/2019; 109 because I thought the sleeve cuff really lovely; however I ran up a muslin –...
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blue Blair jacket
Hello! I made a new thing. It’s sort of a jacket, sort of a coat. What’s the difference between those two things anyway, I wonder? I always thought a jacket was short, like maybe no longer than...
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pink Axis
I absolutely love this, my new dress!! for several reasons, upon which I shall now proceed to wax lyrical… The pattern is the Axis dress by Papercut patterns… I’ve loved this pattern company for...
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knots and crosses
I made this crazy outfit! I know; it doesn’t “look” too crazy.. but it is, because it was a super-fiddly process and took aaaaaages. Not content with just using what was actually very nice fabric as...
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crimson rosellas
{Sooo, what’s going on? It’s actually been well over a month since I made this dress, took these pictures and half wrote this whole post too so maybe I should say something about my absence. Later....
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a pretty outfit (cielo and sixtine)
So I made an oh-so pretty, fluttery, flower-strewn outfit of the most perfectly spring-worthy persuasion! but wait… am I not currently still on the downwards slope to the dark dank pit of winter?...
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adding the almighty pocket
So, recently I’ve been on a bit of a pocket binge. You see, one has a phone which has rapidly become the ruler of one’s Life, and one has decided that this little autocrat needs to be on one’s person...
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I made a turquoise skirt
Enough said! Well actually, I guess I can say a little more… so I bought this turquoise denim in New York City during my holiday in the United States with Yoshimi last year…. and who could have...
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I made a little red top
… hot on the heels of my turquoise skirt, I whipped (k-chshhhh!) up a little top! This is made from the leftovers from this little skirt, that I wore to near-death last year. I still have that little...
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