Sewing

Kaftan creations: an international challenge

A little over four weeks ago, Hélène (@hportemanteau), Suzy (@sewing_in_spain) and I thought we might run a short Instagram challenge whereby people could make the free Stitch Sisters patternless kaftan. We planned it as a kind of international sewing challenge and called it “sewing sans frontieres”. We thought we might get a few people joining in […]

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Sewing

Stitch Sisters free kaftan

My friends Hélène (@hportemanteau) and Suzy (@sewing_in_spain) and I are currently running a challenge to make a kaftan from the Stitch Sisters free pattern. We did have a bit of a discussion as to the spelling of kaftan/caftan, but historically I think kaftan is correct as it is probably derived from the Turkish “kap ton”, […]

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