Tessuti Melbourne

Hilary and the Short Sleeves

Here’s the happy result of a quick and simple hack that I’ve been meaning to try out for a while. We released our Hilary Top pattern almost a year ago. I have a linen one, made up exactly as per…

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My Bad Eye Linden

My Sicilian mother’s family are all big believers in malocchio – the evil eye.  Growing up, I’d sometimes see Mum/aunt/cousin/random relative suddenly struck down with a bad-eye symptom that generally manifested as a really, really bad headache. What then followed…

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Doing it for the squids – Alice and Geranium

Here’s some looooong overdue kids sewing. They both chose fabrics during the Christmas holidays and, well, being summer AND holidays I took my fair time in sewing them up. Fortunately, they got in some good wear before things got chilly…

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My Esther Shorts

Those Melbournians amongst us will know what I’m talking about when I tell you that our summer recently went AWOL. It was a little bit of a lonely and chilly time for us sun-loving folk but – HAPPY DAYS – she’s making up…

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My Tokyo Jacket – Take 2

  Here’s my latest Tokyo Jacket. This one’s a more summer-ier (word? should be), casual alternative to my first silk version. And the colour is there in spades – most unlike me and my usual black-clad self, I know.   …

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