Older readers might remember my Trouser Quest last year, to find the perfect trouser pattern. For me that pattern is New Look 6713, recommended by and borrowed from my neighbour. After fitting and altering the basic pattern, I have made this pattern three times now and the latest version is my favourite. Three quarter length and made of […]
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Mess o’making
Somehow, I seem to have accumulated a number of works in progress. And somehow, I am still working on all of them…kinda. Here is a mess o’knitting in the corner of our couch. It is mostly spread all over the couch but here it is resting. There’s the body and a sleeve of a cardigan […]
I had a very salutary realisation recently. I am not a Japanese woman. I made this. It is from Yoshiko Tsukiori’s Stylish Dress Book – Wear with Freedom (2008). It seemed like destiny: a beautiful book of patterns that looked so comfortable to wear, time to draw off the pattern and I found the exact […]
In the last wee while, I have made a peculiar assortment of things, even odder when I see them brought together now. Twenty seven high vis, Velcro armbands are now ready to help Our Dear Girl’s harried teachers keep track of a mob of excited preschoolers when out and about in the park. I am […]
We have been making crowns for birthdays. Easily made from bits and pieces from your stash, these are half crowns that fit across the front of a child’s head and fasten around the back with elastic. They fit a range of head sizes (2 – 5 years), they can be put on easily by the […]
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 […]
To some folks, they are called nightdresses. To others, they are nighties. But to Our Dear Girl, they are nightingales! And why not indeed? In an Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats wrote Thou wast not born for death, immortal Bird! No hungry generations tread thee down; The voice I hear this passing night was […]
Another month has passed and it is time to open the Ribbon Tin. Inside the Ribbon Tin is a monthly series featuring a miscellany of bits and bobs, odds and sods, knicks and knacks, all sorts of interesting things related to textiles and making. It is high summer here. The lawns are brown, the parks cracked […]
The day after we got back from camping, a bit shattered from the heat wave, we stayed in our pajamas, did the mountain of washing that camping generates and lazed around. Somewhere around mid afternoon, I slipped away and made a skirt. The fabric had been waiting to become a skirt since I pulled it […]
When I asked Our Dear Girl what she most dearly wanted for Christmas she said in a wistful voice, ‘Anything princessy, just anything’. Ah yes, she has reached that stage. She has worked out that she is a girl and now she is working out what girls are. I really want her to have more […]
