Sewing

Geranium dress

I was doing some red dyeing for a Christmas stocking for an expected grandchild, when I felt the dye pot wasn’t quite exhausted so I began tossing in old tablecloths. They came out pink, so I thought I’d made Misses G and E a dress each. I wanted a gathered dress for twirling so got […]

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Zero Waste Optimatium Coat

I watched people making the Optimatium dress when it was offered in the Tauko magazine last year and wondered how I could get my mitts on it, and then Liz, the designer, offered it to her fans and followers and I snapped it up – apparently the first in the world to do so! With […]

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A vintage shorts set

I’m really enjoying shorts sets at the moment, and, having dyed a ready to wear set that was given to me more than five years ago, I thought I would make one. Here is the before and after. I used to try this on and take it off straight away without really thinking about the […]

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