I have had a bit of a yearning to make the Alabama Chanin bucket hat, and when Gloria from Aube Nouvelle lent me her stencils and sold me some lovely AC organic cotton, I was set! I made the hat on the plane going to India and had to cut out the upper layer with […]
Read more1947 Vogue cocktail dress
I’ve had this Vogue pattern for a goodly while and decided to make it to take on holidays with me. As usual the sizing was all wrong for me, so took it to my pattern making class for the alterations. As the title of this post claims – this is a 1947 Vogue pattern (Vogue […]
Read moreAnother pair of wide legged trousers
I loved my original pair of wide-legged trousers so much that I made another pair, this time from quite a crisp cotton drill that I bought in Spotlight last year . These are as lovely to wear as the first pair, but they are quite different. Unlike the first pair, they don’t have much drape, […]
Read morePresto Popover hack #2
Following on from my first Presto Popover hack (here), I have made a dress. I didn’t set out to make this a real dress. I drafted it in my pattern making class with Sarah’s help, and used three different scraps of fabric to make a toile. I then lost my mind and started making all sorts […]
Read moreGandhi’s Ashram and some cotton spinning
My followers on Instagram will know that I had a bit of a go at cotton spinning whilst visiting Gandhi’s Ashram in Ahmedabad. First though, I need to talk a bit about the Ashram. It is quite a large compound, immaculately kept in Gandhi’s honour. Guest houses are still intact, as is the room where […]
Read moreVisit to Gujarat, India and new trousers
Many of you have asked for the posts to keep coming, so who am I to deny you 🙂 Whilst Mark and his colleague, Krishna, went off to work, I had a private tour of some of the local sights. Our first stop was the world famous Akshardham Temple, which was attacked a few years […]
Read moreBuying fabric in Amritsar, Punjab
This is a pretty short post because whilst Amritsar is full of fabric I only went to one shop. I had to go alone as Mark was working all day, and I had to pass the time somehow, right? I finished up going to a shop that was recommended by the hotel, and this was probably my […]
Read moreNew jeans and top
Following on the success of my first pair of bespoke jeans, I have made another pair. These jeans are the same yellow denim left over from my Ginger jeans, but which I don’t wear very often because they are a bit on the big side. I wore my bespoke jeans to the Golden Temple in Amritsar, […]
Read moreLight as a thistle: Bettine dress
I’ve been watching the Bettine dress by Tilly and the Buttons popping up on the internet, and I thought I would add to the examples as it seemed the perfect dress for our upcoming summer. In the meantime, I took it to India. I wore it on my recent visit to the Taj Mahal. It […]
Read morePresto Popover hack
I’ve made a couple of these really useful Presto Popover tops by Savage Coco patterns (earlier versions here and here) but I think it is a perfect top for hacking. Whilst the construction of the front of the pattern is excellent for thin, transparent knits, it does use rather more fabric than I would wish. I enlisted […]
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