Following on from my last make and the quest to make more bottoms, here’s a new pair of pants. Or jeans. Or something in between. A little background that led me to this pattern. My best and favourite go-to pants this…
Ahhhh, Me Made May – the great revealer of both wardrobe favourites and wardrobe gaps. This last May gone, after reaching for pants and jeans almost every other day, I resolved to sew a few more bottoms to add to what feels…
Not sure about you, but a large chunk of my 2020 has been spent online. I don’t shop much anymore and I haven’t shopped much this year, but I have browsed much. VERY much. Perhaps even VERY TOO MUCH. I’m…
I’m pretty sentimental at the best of times but this year that sentimentality has kicked off to a WHOLE other level. One of my Mum’s lockdown projects has been sorting through old family photos and she’s been texting us a…
A sundress for Gabby and a sundress for September. I can’t take credit for this make as it was actually her Nonna Silva who made it for her. After trying to find it for a few years, I finally scored this…
Ever have one of those projects that – through no fault of the pattern – is just a domino effect of stuff ups that makes you question if you should even be making it? This project was mine. It felt…
Don’t you just love it when a style of garment that you’ve fallen in love with pops up as a new pattern design? It’s like a lovely manifestation of all that’s good about sewing. This pattern is the Envelope Dress…
So many unfinished projects and now, some time. I’ve resolved to finish several UFOs before I move onto anything new so here’s completed Isolation Project #1 – the Wiksten Shift Dress. Most of you will know this pattern I’m sure…
This skirt falls firmly into two categories. Firstly – Spontaneous. There was no long-term planning of this one, trawling through Pinterest, hashtag surfing on Instagram. This was categorically an eleventh hour make for our Melbourne staff Christmas party. I wasn’t…
2019 is definitely going down as my year of shirts and here’s one that came from absolute kindness. A few months ago, Jasika posted a pic of this pattern on Instagram. I left a comment confessing to some serious pattern…
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