The latest edition of Tauko Magazine Edition 18, is entitled “Pockets”, so it should come as no surprise that Liz Haywood created a zero waste pocket that could be worn external to a garment. It’s called “Roo”, referencing the Australian marsupial and its famous pocket. It is described thus in the pattern: Taking inspiration from […]
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It’s Denim December over on Sew A Garment A Month on Instagram and I just couldn’t imagine making a denim garment for summer, so made a doll’s dress (reveal soon), but then I went looking for a white skirt and realised that mine had seen better days, so had the lightbulb moment – I can […]
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Tauko Magazine number 17 is out today with the theme of “Happiness” and it certainly made me happy as it’s full of some really lovely patterns. I chose the Vibes pattern by Lauren Merceris as I felt it would fit perfectly into my wardrobe. It has two styes – a sleeveless version with a double […]
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In October I’m going to be at the Fibreswest residential retreat in Narrogin, a country town in the wheatbelt and I keep hearing about how freezing it is (thermals are mentioned), so I decided that new pyjamas were in order. I have been meaning to make another hooded robe from Liz Haywood’s excellent book “Zero […]
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I was out for lunch recently and one of my friends, Sofia, gave me a bag of beads; all natural, some semi-precious like lapis lazuli, citrine, jade, onyx, among others. I accepted them with alacrity! I knew immediately that I wanted to knit them into a necklace, as about twenty years ago I knitted some […]
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It’s my grandson’s birthday soon and I wanted to make him a top to supplement his other gifts which are dinosaur themed, so the top needed a dinosaur! I found a fun graphic which I imported into Cricut Design Space and added a shaped background layer to it, then printed it on to a fusible […]
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