Thank you all so much for your enthusiastic response to my recent remaking conundrum. I have spent the last decade occasionally wondering what I should do with this beautiful sweater made by my dear late friend for her son in the late sixties. But with your suggestions prompting either ideas or realisations of the deeper […]
Tag: Upcycling
Whilst the Waysides project is simmering out the back, I’d like to share another ongoing project that has been on my mind: Costume Changes. Costume Changes is my clothes making project that seeks to address the paucity and incoherence of my wardrobe eight years on from having my first child. Because I have a bit of […]
Oh yes, it is Christmas, the end of days! End of school, end of kinder, end of swimming, end of piano, beginning of holidays, camping, ripe apricots, school watering rosters and Christmas flurry. We are falling into Christmas. We have camped for a few days by a beautiful river. We have hunted down our tree […]
In my attempt to make from what I already have, in the waning days of the year, I am launching Operation Man Shirt, a quest to usefully transform all My Man’s old, worn business shirts that in some frugal madness I have stored for years. To that end, I removed all the buttons and stitched […]
Not long ago, I came home from school pick-up to find a collection of bags on the front verandah. There was yarn in one, machine knitted samples in another and fabric scraps in the other…refugees from a friend’s de-stashing. The bags got as far as the lounge room floor. The next day, a few hours […]
My sewing frenzy has continued with finishing my bundle of bunting that we cut out earlier. And doesn’t it look so cheery hanging in the crab apple tree? I love that these are made from upholstery samples. Hail to Jacinta for making frugal so fine. It looks like the decks are clear for a bit […]
There was a bunting blitz at school last week in anticipation of the school fete. We cut out lots and lots triangles from upholstery off-cuts. I now have a pile of stripey joyfulness to sew.
There are several op shops (charity shops in local parlance) on the main street in Berwick-on-Tweed. In one, I found a lovely Scottish pure wool tartan scarf that I thought would make a lovely little skirt of for our dear girl. So with the tools at hand – the kitchen scissors from the place we […]
