Sewing, Stashbusting, Tom

Birthday flanno

I have previously made my son, Tom, a couple of flannel shirts (here and here)  but he has asked for more (he would really like one for every day of the week – I have considered agreeing to this and embroidering days of the week on the pockets. Who can remember the underwear that had […]

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Sewing

Liebster award nomination

Helen from justsewtherapeutic has nominated me for a Liebster Award (with a nice button and everything), and I have to say I was very chuffed. I did have to do some research into the award and it seems to be an award by bloggers for other bloggers. Not something that I can put on my CV […]

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Knitting, Op shopping, Travel, vintage, yarn shopping in Stockholm

A fadist’s guide to Stockholm #2: knitting wool

My last post was about fabric stores in Stockholm, and now a post for the knitters who are looking for good yarn stores in Stockholm. This mission was much tougher than the fabric mission, for some reason. I found lots of bits of wool in various fabric stores and also in Åhlens department store, but it was disappointing […]

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fabric shopping Stockholm, Sewing, shopping, Travel

A fadist’s guide to Stockholm #1: Fabric

Having spent some time on the internet searching for fabric and knitting yarn shops in Stockholm, I thought it might be useful to have a slightly updated and annotated list. I will also say that hunting for shops is a really good way of getting to know a city and I do have to acknowledge […]

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Mark, Sewing, Travel

Polka dot shirt

Sometime ago Mark visited a fabric store sale with me and we came away with more fabric for him than for me! The fabric that he wanted was four different versions of the same spotted fabric – just the colours varied. This is the first of the shirts made from this fabric (although I’ve decided to […]

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Mark, Sewing, Sewing retro, Travel, vintage

Scuba skirt

When my eldest sister was visiting me from the UK she bought me this piece of scuba fabric, and I even managed to make it up. I used the same pattern that I used for my vintage skirt, Style 4232, and because of the drapey nature of the fabric, the look is quite different. I […]

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Sewing

Charcoal Susan top

So we had the day where I kept adding clothes and today I had to duck into bathrooms to remove them! It was 16° today (Sunday), but it was warm, and I had worn thick tights, a silk top under this cotton top and assorted other jumpers. Our conference started today and we walked to the Karalinksa […]

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Knitting, Machine knitting, Mark, Sewing

Layer up!

Today was a strange day clothes-wise. It was beautifully sunny, but the wind was ferocious and freezing. There was no choice but to layer up. I began the day in my second Nettie bodysuit – a grey one this time. When I made the red leopard Nettie I decided that next time I would make a few […]

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Mark, Sewing, Sewing retro, Travel, vintage

Black and grey rugby

Well, we are in Stockholm and I made this rugby top for Mark literally at the last minute before we left – I actually thought I would be sewing the buttons on when we got here, but I managed to finish it 10 minutes before the car came to take us to the airport. Here […]

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Sewing

Red Leopard Nettie

  I have to confess that I was not going to jump on the Nettie bodysuit bandwagon – I have this bodysuit pattern that I’ve had since the ’80s – Vogue 2371 but it’s just a bit too ’80s, so jump on the bandwagon I did!   So introducing my red leopard Nettie! I had no idea […]

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