The latest Fibremood magazine, issue 23, is out and I chose to make the Uzma, which is described as a boxy, cropped, square necked top. The neckline and armholes are finished with an all in one facing which makes for a lovely clean finish, and the act of sewing it is a useful technique to […]
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My stepdaughter is home for a couple of weeks with our grandson and she asked me to make him a summer wardrobe. I set to work with alacrity! I could have gone mad, but did restrain myself as I don’t want to burden her with too much stuff which won’t fit for long. I started […]
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I’d just been considering what to refashion for Refebulous, an annual sewing challenge held in February, which aims to inspire people to repair/refashion/reuse clothes, when I found this pair of jeans on the free rail of the community op shop in Manjimup. Unlike most jeans I see in op shops, these had a fair amount […]
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For years I’ve been wearing a red tee shirt that I love but finding the pattern I used to make it has eluded me, so I decided to rub off a new pattern. In the process I remembered that the red tee was itself rubbed off a ready to wear black one (Visage if memory […]
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Between my sewing and the Cricut I figured that this Christmas would have a lot of handmade elements, and so it was. Here are a few. Mark did very well this year. I made him two pairs of speedos from checked fabric scraps left over from my bathers. Just in the nick of time apparently […]
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Megan (meggipeg.com), Katherine (sewblooms ) and I caught up for coffee the day after Issey Miyake departed for that great atelier in the sky, and we decided that it would be lovely to make one of his patterns to pay him homage. We went home and started digging and we each found that we had […]
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I couldn’t resist this, as “cricut” is pronounced “cricket” and I know people who actually think I am playing the game! Of course I’m playing with my Cricut cutting machine and I have had a great deal of fun. When I got it I thought the majority of my making would be with fabric and […]
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