I haven’t been the only one creating. Archie decided that he had made bread boards for lots of people (for remuneration I might add), but not one for his family, so he set about creating a special one for us. Tada! Isn’t it beautiful? It is made from Sheoak and Jarrah, both Western Australian timbers, […]
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Back in the ’60s I was a surfer girl (also known as a gidget) and remember when board shorts first appeared – they were really expensive and so I set about making them both for me and for my boyfriend of the day (matching ones!) from a pattern which I fashioned together from some Burda […]
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You’ve all probably immediately gone to thinking about tweed fabric, but I had one of those weird flashbacks to my mother wearing Tweed perfume when I was a child. I immediately had to google it and found that it was launched in 1925 and “Tweed is an enduring, distinctive, retro classic fragrance that has retained […]
Read moreBetty Boop
This is probably the scariest post I have done so far (although it is early days!). Inspired by HandmadebyCarolyn’s white bombshell (doesn’t she look amazing?), I rushed off and bought this pattern from Closet Case Files and decided that I had to have it in a polka dot! Given that these are ’50s inspired bathers, I thought […]
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Inspired by the chenille bag I made, I thought I might have a go at chenilling leather to make another button/magnet thing. As this was a proof of concept activity (mixing business and pleasure now!) I used the scrappiest bits of leather I could find – an old bag bought in an opshop, so a […]
Read moreNot up to much!
It’s been a bit quiet in the sweatshop lately; I’ve been busy at work and on the home front. I did manage to buy Bridgette some lovely fabric in the Spotlight sale, but when I washed it the colours ran into the white. Disaster! I immediately used the Runaway stuff, but that took all the […]
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