Sewing

A vintage shorts set

I’m really enjoying shorts sets at the moment, and, having dyed a ready to wear set that was given to me more than five years ago, I thought I would make one. Here is the before and after. I used to try this on and take it off straight away without really thinking about the […]

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Sewing

Butterick 4870: still going strong

I first made this pattern in the mid 1970s when I was in my early twenties. I see that it was bought at a fabric shop at my then local shopping centre, which is long gone and which I can barely remember now. I remember making a maxi version of this dress from some gorgeous […]

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