| Title | Date Published | Excerpt |
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| yoke | November 25, 2012 | I’ve been eyeing this pattern on the various online fabric sites I’ve recently discovered. It was a little bit pricey in one store but on all the others it was sold out so I finally relented and bought it. It was more complicated than it looked because the instructions expect you to also sew a […] |
| four tiers | November 17, 2012 | I wasn’t planning on sewing this skirt this afternoon. I was just going to cut out the pieces and then cut out some other bits and pieces and sew tomorrow. This is the pattern. It doesn’t have any pattern pieces. You have to do some measuring and some maths and then cut the material yourself. […] |
| a kaftan top | November 16, 2012 | I bought this pattern a couple of weeks ago and have been trying to find time to try it out. I have had success with the same brand in an A line skirt so hoped this one would work just as well. The part that took the longest was tracing off the pattern pieces. I […] |
| green saucepans and more adventures in sewing | November 4, 2012 | My mum bought me this excellent green saucepan in return for me looking after their garden while they went on holidays. I used it today for the first time. What gourmet delicacy did I cook up in it Nigella-style I hear you ask? Mushrooms. Not just any mushrooms. Mushrooms for the very important meal of […] |
| I have a hobby | October 27, 2012 | I cut this skirt out last weekend and sewed it together yesterday and today. It’s another attempt at the A-line pattern. This time though I had the advantage of owning a zipper foot for putting in the zip. It did take me ten minutes to work out how to change the foot on the machine […] |
| zips, rick rack and sleeves | October 14, 2012 | Another weekend and more sewing. This weekend I cut out the A line skirt pattern I bought over the inter webs. Either I did something really wrong or the pattern was wrong because the waist pieces did not match the skirt pieces. I did some creative “adding of material” to the waist pieces so they […] |
| the sewing frenzy continues | October 7, 2012 | The sewing frenzy continues. I spent every day at work wishing I was at home sewing. That is strange isn’t it? Yesterday I made two things. This top and this skirt. I am very happy with the top. It is better than last week’s effort with the same pattern where I didn’t take enough notice […] |