This is item number 3 in my vintage challenge, so by my reckoning I am producing one a month, even though my pledge is to produce 5 garments this year – I always like to under promise and over deliver 🙂 This blouse pattern is McCalls 5512 from 1970. It was innovative back then in […]
Read moreDammit Janet
Yes, we went to the Rocky Horror Picture Show, and I went as Janet (or a very vague facsimile thereof!). I gave tickets to Mark and Bridgette for their respective birthdays and Tom and I went along for the ride. My dress is made from an original 1960 Butterick pattern. It says 34″ bust, but […]
Read moreGreen linen dress
My sister emailed me at the weekend complaining that she was in blog withdrawal, so I whipped up this dress to appease her! We had one overcast day and I began thinking about autumn so put long sleeves in the dress. It may not see the light of day again for quite a few weeks! […]
Read moreO is for Ottoman
Not a reference to the Ottoman Empire (as fabulous as that is) or footstools, but silk ottoman. I bought this fabric from Tessuti and have had it in my stash for a little while. It was part of the online purchase I made when I bought the material for Archie’s boardies, and it is divine, […]
Read moreI is for Italian
OK, the title of this post is another big stretch, but these boardies are made from a gorgeous Italian fabric from Tessuti’s that came as part of an earlier little online shopping spree with Tom. The boardies take 85 cms of fabric and this remnant was only 50cms, so I am pretty happy that I […]
Read moreH is for Hybrid
Mark is telling me that I am beginning to draw a long bow with these titles – too true! This dress started life as a fairly small remnant from Knitwit (the blue, white and silver fabric). I then added the plain blue for the skirt, but then decided I wanted sleeves, so went back for […]
Read moreG is for Grafitti
This is what happens when I go online shopping when one of my sons is about – I tend to buy stuff! I was just having a little peruse of the Tessuti website when Tom came for a visit and he thought this fabric would be perfect for more boardies. To be truthful, I’m not […]
Read moreA is for amend : My first refashion!
I find that one of the hardest things about blogging is finding a title, so I thought I would exercise my creativity by attaching each title of my next 26 blogs to an alphabetical letter; hence, “A is for amend” (a bit Sue Grafton, I know, but I thought I would amuse myself anyway). I […]
Read moreFloral boardies
I am off to Sydney next month on holiday – a week of unfettered fabric shopping 😉 – and asked Archie to look at the fabrics in Tessuti and pick something. Ummm, he picked this fabric – floral swimsuit material for me to turn into boardies! Really? Are you sure? I seem to ask these […]
Read moreBlue seaweed
My sister gave me a 1970s knitting book, which was in her stash – thereby moving it from her overpacked house to mine! I immediately fell in like with this lurex top, but of course, the yarn is no longer available and Yarndex didn’t have it listed so that I could source an approximate facsimile. […]
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