Japanese sewing books, Me-Made-May'15, Sewing, Stashbusting

Basic Black Pattern N

I have made the shirt Pattern M from Basic Black recently and I wanted to make Pattern N which is a shirt dress, using pattern M as the basis. Apologies for the poor quality photos but I carefully took my camera off to the river only to find that I had inadvertently left the memory card behind. […]

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Japanese sewing books, pattern review, Sewing, Stashbusting

Basic Black Shirt “M” – the planets have aligned

I have identified a gap in my wardrobe – a need, not a want! I didn’t have a black shirt. Crazy, right? Once my whole wardrobe was filled with black things, but since I’ve started making all my clothes, I tend to not make them in black as it’s so hard to see, especially at night. […]

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