Ever since making my first White Russian I have been wanting to make a white one. For no reason except I liked the concept of a white White Russian! Having made it, I wasn’t certain that I liked it. It was rather… white! Excuse the pose here, I was watching some parrots go mad in the tree. […]
Read moreKnitted White Russian: OWOP Day 4
A few days ago I recklessly tweeted that I was going to make my own fabric for a White Russian. I have a few many large cones of yarn with almost no prospect of getting them knitted into anything useful and I thought I’d knit one of my three cones of chenille on the knitting machine […]
Read moreOWOP* day 1
*For the uninitiated OWOP stands for One Week One Pattern which is a challenge whereby the challengee (me) has to wear a garment a day made from the one pattern. I had a great deal of trouble choosing my pattern – would I go Vogue 1247, of which I have six, or would I go […]
Read moreMore trousers for Mark
I have made Kwik Sew 3663 for Mark so often, that I think I could make these trousers in my sleep. They are really supposed to be for working around the house but since Mark brought me home all this wonderful fabric from Sri Lanka, I have been making him a slightly more tailored version. These […]
Read moreMore t-shirt refashions
This was my last hurrah in the repurpose, reuse, refashion month – I took 3 t-shirts and made 4 pairs of undies. While having an idle wander around the internet I came across this free pattern from indigorchid and thought I’d give it a go. I started with this t-shirt which Bridgette had thrown out and I’d […]
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