Sewing, Stashbusting

Salvaged Burda lace blouse

This blouse had been malingering in my cupboard as a UFO. It’s the lace shirt 116 from Burda Style 3/2013. I love many of the clothes in this particular issue, but the minute I saw this top I knew I had to make it. Coincidentally, some lovely heavy cotton lace that I had been coveting in Spotlight […]

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Sewing, Stashbusting

Make that Champagne with my Bellini please!

Just carrying on my cocktail themed makes from Capital Chic Patterns; I’ve made the Champagne skirt, which I absolutely love.   I’ve been seeing this skirt everywhere and decided I needed one – STAT! I got the pattern and fossicked through my vast stash for an appropriate fabric finally settling on a ramie/viscose blend with a […]

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