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Butterick 5602 - the shapely shift! 15 Nov 2011 | 04:41 am
As my last two makes were useful wardrobe basics I gave myself permission to indulge myself with another dress – I just love to make dresses! Since finishing my Chanel inspired dress (blogged about he...
Black jeans and a flower-power t-shirt! 6 Nov 2011 | 06:54 am
Much as I would like to spend my time making Chanel inspired dresses (see my last post) I really felt that it was time to get down to creating some autumn casual basics. And for that, of course, you c...
My Chanel inspired dress - Butterick 5602! 17 Oct 2011 | 02:33 am
Last week I was in a frenzy of indecision - so many fabric and pattern possibilities were whirring around my brain that I just didn’t know what to make next. At times like this I think that you can’t ...
Cape Fear or Cape of Good Hope? 8 Oct 2011 | 12:23 am
Throughout the last winter I harboured a hankering for a cape but I never got around to making one. This year I decided to jump right in and make one before those nagging suspicions that a cape would ...
Online fabric shopping - yea or nay? 1 Oct 2011 | 03:51 am
I live in London, a large city that has a wide variety of fabric stores that I love to shop in. So, you would think that I would have no need to venture into the world-wide-web to feed my fabric buyi...
Simplicity 2497 Cynthia Rowley dress! 25 Sep 2011 | 02:35 am
My latest make is what I like to call an easy-to-wear dress in an all-year round print fabric (which, by the way, is a silk twill designed by Phillip Lim). Simplicity 2497 by Cynthia Rowley In the c...
Vintage Simplicity 4175 finished! 17 Sep 2011 | 12:27 am
In my last post I mentioned that I have been working on a dress made from a vintage Simplicity pattern so, without further ado, here it is, finished! Vintage Simplicity 4175 I used a Liberty of L...
Still hanging on to summer .... 9 Sep 2011 | 02:08 am
The weather has turned blustery, the days are getting shorter. The blogosphere is buzzing with plans for fall sewing. And what am I doing? I am looking at my large pile of summer fabrics. Did I rea...
Vogue 8603 and how a zebra wears her stripes! 3 Sep 2011 | 05:47 am
My latest make is one of those great wardrobe staples - a pencil skirt made in an animal print. Classic styling in a fun fabric. Zebra print pencil skirt The pattern is Vogue 8603 - for a variety of...
How I get an invisible zipper looking neat at the top! 29 Aug 2011 | 05:09 am
I know I have mentioned this before, but I hate hooks and eyes. They are pesky little things to be avoided at (almost) all costs. Usually I just leave them off and nothing terrible happens - my garmen...
