Little Miss G loves cats, which she calls Meow Meows (she thinks this is the name of her own cat too, whose real name is Felix), so I thought I’d make her a tee shirt with a cat on it. Then she said she wanted a purple pig (another obsession), so I made that first. […]
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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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This is the fourth Fibremood Sean I’ve made for Mark and it won’t be the last, as I really, really, like this pattern. Here are the line drawings. I used some wool knit from Knitwit Fabrics as it’s been in my stash for a few years, taking up a lot of room. It has a […]
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I’ve been wanting to make Mark a new casual jacket, possibly with matching tracksuit bottoms, to wear to the pool and for long trips in the car, but just didn’t have the right fabric in my stash. I broke my self-imposed fabric ban when I found the perfect fabric at Knitwit Fabrics, and bought three […]
Read moreOne of my prizes from the Sewalongs and Sewing Contests group was a pattern from Thread Theory. As these are mostly men’s patterns, I let Archie choose the pattern and he chose the Finlayson Sweater, with the warning that the fabric had to be “just right”. Right! Anyway he bunked off on a 4WD odyssey […]
Read moreIt’s unselfish sewing month over on my Facebook Stashbusting Sewalong group and I’m the host, so I thought I’d better lead by example and make a few things for other people. I started out with this Seamwork Denali vest, which I thought Mark might like and I scrap busted some fabric left over from his coat, so […]
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