Sewing, Stashbusting

Shorts and some leave

I’ve made some shorts from a bengaline remnant that I’ve had in my stash for a couple of years. I’m not sure they are the most flattering shorts – now I look at the photographs I think they may be a bit long, and perhaps a bit wide at the knee, but I fashioned them […]

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Sewing, Stashbusting

Flat Bottom Flo Pants.

This is yet another pattern from my 30% off haul from Style Arc in December – a trouser pattern designed for those of us who are challenged in the derriere department, unfortunately called Flat Bottom Flo. I bought this pattern in the hope that it would solve my baggy trouser syndrome, and solve it, it did. I […]

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Repurposed, self-drafted, Sewing, Stashbusting

Twenty minute transformation

Oh I do love me a bit of alliteration! As it happens, this took slightly longer than twenty minutes – but I decided that poetic license was in order. Gabrielle from Heaven Wrapped gave me this scarf to refashion/repurpose and I decided that I would not do another Coco, but would try something a bit more […]

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