One of my few remaining pieces of RTW is a very stretchy top that I used to love, but which I haven’t worn for about three years. I decided that I would like a new one, so rubbed off the pattern and then went shopping in the stash. I found a small remnant (what else?) […]
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I’ve had this pattern from Blue Prints since it was first released but every time I got it out I put it away again. I originally bought it to make a sweatshirt from scraps, but lost the will to live with the thought of cutting out so many small triangles. No matter, I have finally […]
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We left Vancouver on the Rocky Mountaineer, which is one of the top ten train journeys in the world, and possibly the most luxurious (although I have no basis for comparison). There is a lot to see from the train and I took a lot of photographs, but won’t inflict them all on you. I […]
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Followers on IG will recognise this top from my Me-Made-May17 endeavours, and I thought I would write a blog post on how this top came about. A while back I bought a 75cm Italian wool remnant from Knitwit with the idea of colour blocking with some other fabric and making a SewHouse7 Toaster #1, which […]
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Or a cardigan. I really wanted something light and comfortable to wear on the long haul flight that I’ve just done, and happened to mention this to Sarah at my patternmaking class, and before I knew where I was we were into it! As it happens, she had designed something almost exactly what I wanted for herself […]
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We have now spent a week in Vancouver, with a side trip to Victoria on Vancouver Island, so I’ll try and capture the highlights here. The feature image is actually a sculpture outside the Vancouver Library. Both appropriate for there and here, I thought! Transport We were given a pass to the Hop-on-hop-off bus, but […]
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