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little sludgy cardigan
…once again slithering in under the wire on the last day of the month with my knit-of-the-month! For July’s effort I made a new little cardigan. This is yarn that I bought during our hiking trip to...
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little pink jumper
I’ve knitted a little jumper… this is made completely from scraps and leftover wool from other projects and the (still) large bag of bits and pieces that Mum gave me a couple of years ago. Something...
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green Japanese wool tartan
I know, I know … “tartan” and “Japanese” are not words that should generally go together but anyway, let’s not digress! I bought a short length of this beautiful piece of wool during our recent...
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pink cushions
Hello! My latest knitting project has been some cushion covers… I’ve had two cushions on our front bench for years, which had became bleached over time to a very unattractive dirty-greige. I took...
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snuggly dress/shacket
I made this very snuggly and cosy shirtdress/jacket thingummy recently, the pattern is the new Fibremood Ildri … I think it is called a shirtdress, but it can obviously be cut shorter as a shirt or...
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pink and blue lingerie
Obviously the most worn items in just about anyone’s wardrobe is bound to be underwear… and so one is obliged to often update these things, even though you don’t get the benefit of showing of your new...
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indigo mestre shirt
Screenshot I made a new shirt recently, using the Pauline Alice Mestre pattern … and I just have to say that this new design is extremely impressive to me with many beautiful, clever and thoughtful...
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green and blue scrappy jumper
hello! I’ve knitted a new jumper, from that big inherited bag of scraps and leftovers that has stymied my dreams of a minimalist, streamlined stash for quite a long time now… I’m trying to make a...
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new/old denim skirt
hello! I’ve made a new skirt, using all bits and pieces from old denim jeans .. or should that then be an old skirt? Hmmm.. a debatable concept! I like using old textiles to make something different,...
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polka dot bathers
Hello! I made some new bathers recently… I’m afraid this is rather boring and predictable but I used the same old pattern I’ve been using for a long long time now and which is sadly no longer...
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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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