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The Unblogged – Grainline Willow Tank and True Bias Ogden Cami
As 2016 rapidly disappears, I’m determined to clear some of my projects out of my head and into the blog. So expect a slight rush of posts before I disappear again for a while. I view my blog as a...
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The Unblogged: Waffle Pattern Vanilla and Cali Faye Collections Rumi Top
So yet more tops, this time some knits. While I was feeling out-of-sorts this year, I resorted to sewing lots of simple tops to sate my craving to sew – which it really didn’t. Although I do have a...
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A dress: Vintage Vogue 8974…
Or when everything old is new again… (and a recent make!) A floral vintage Vogue Patterns 8974 I’m not really a vintage gal. It doesn’t seem to fit with my casual aesthetic and I think it would be a...
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Happy New Year & a ‘new’ room
Hello & happy new year! I’m still working my way through the backlog of 2016 posts but in the meantime I thought I’d quickly post what I’ve been up to… Tidying up my sewing room! I felt suffocated...
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2017 – a year of random sewing
… or why I don’t have sewing goals… It’s that time of the year when most of us focus on what we would like to do for the coming year – in all areas of our lives. I’ve been thinking a lot about a lot of...
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Ogden Cami Dress
A quick holiday post, from the spectacular Bruny Island, Tasmania, Australia. I wasn’t ‘in love’ with this fabric when I purchased it, just its drape. Now it’s sewn up I rather love the print I suspect...
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PDF patterns – let’s talk
I’m interested in hearing people’s experiences, thoughts and suggestions about the supply of PDF patterns – and I think people are interested in talking about it too. I’m not talking about the...
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Musings: where to from here…
I find myself knee deep into 2017 already… and not quite sure ‘where to from here’… I’m still sewing… although hit some hurdles. So what I have been doing? Life… Every year my life goes into overdrive...
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The Shining Archer… Grainline Studios
or the Twilight shirt… it reminds me of how Edward’s skin in the Twilight movies sparkles like diamonds in the sunlight. This is yet another project that has taken me forever to blog. I finished this...
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Flint Pants, Megan Nielson – in tencel denim
aka ‘I can’t decide where to crop these pants!” #shortpersonproblems These are the Megan Nielson Flint Pants (typing this on a Sunday night so excuse rambling – questions? Ask in the comments below). I...
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Vogue 9204 – a simple shirt for a complicated skirt
Note: I didn’t make the skirt! Vogue 9204 – the shirt… the skirt was a fortune ‘find’ and shows more of my legs then usual! I did however make the blouse to pair with the skirt. This pattern is a bit...
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Sadie Slip Dress in tencel ‘denim’
I’ve been daydreaming about a bias slip summer slip dress in denim, maybe I’m stuck in the 90s. I’m ok with that, the music was great! I guess it seems counterintuitive to sew a bias-cut dress in one...
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The day everything changed…
(I’ve got a few sewing related posts waiting for you… but they aren’t quite ready, I’m far from home & this is a story I’m going to tell, quite simply because I’m here to tell it.) Life changes so...
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A Beach Brumby Skirt
Brumby Skirt, Megan Nielsen Patterns (Made and photographed pre-hockey ball incident – see end of the post for an update) Brumby Skirt, front view and a peek-a-boo greyhound Really there’s not much to...
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Finding my mojo in boho: Vogue 9253
Aka – The ‘it’ dress Yes, the dress that seems to be ‘everywhere’, Vogue 9253. I make no apologies for succumbing to the pattern ‘fad’, I loved it on its release and purchased it as soon as it was...
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Wrapped in stars – Vogue 9251, a wrap dress
Vogue 9251 – woven wrap dress in viscose crepe Another blast from the post-injury ‘go slow’ phase. This is Vogue 9251, view A. They say not to wear wrap dresses on windy days but I did. These were...
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