Tag Archives: sewing
Green Shirt Dress Photos
So I wrote about the construction of my Green Shirt Dress the other day and said I would post some nice photos of it all finished, that arent selfies in my narrow corridor. Well the other weekend we celebrated my mum’s birthday and I hijacked Nikki for a little while to get her to take photos of the dress (and… Read more »
Sewing the Green Shirt Dress
So following on from my Shirt Dress Planning post, I printed the Penny dress pattern from Seamwork/Colette which it turns out that we already had downloaded as Nikki had started making one for herself a few years ago. Miraculously I downloaded and printed the pattern one night and cut and taped the pattern the next morning! Which is surprisingly fast… Read more »
Shirt Dress Planning
Surprisingly I have been thinking about sewing again, more than just “ugg it has been ages since I last sewed anything…” I am actually thinking seriously about dusting off my machines and making something. As usual, there is a deadline involved, but thankfully not too close at hand. In April I have a wedding to attend with the dress code… Read more »
2021 mid-year update
Honestly, I don’t know where this year has gone to… One minute it is Christmas and then the next it is the summer solstice. The year has both dragged and flown by, due in a large part to not actually doing anything much to differentiate the days from one another, and falling into a bit of a slump in spring…. Read more »
Linen Belemnite Top
Suddenly having time at home during the heat of the summer last year made me realise that I don’t really own many hot weather garments. Normally during the hottest parts of the year, I am wearing my Sunsail uniform and am out on the water so it is cooler than on land anyway. But last year I felt that I… Read more »
2021 Sewing Plans
2020 Makes
Me-Made-May, Pledge and week 1
So somehow May has arrived already, personally I am finding that this lockdown is going so quickly which is totally not what I was expecting from being forced to stay at home. I think it is probably becuase there is less to delinate the days and separate them from one another. Now May has arrived so has Me-Made-May and I… Read more »
2020 Make Nine Plans
As is traditional with the start of a new year I have been looking back on what I planned to make last year and what I actually managed to make from those plans (click the links in the captions to find out) and then planning ahead for the next year. So for 2020, I have done a Make Nine and… Read more »