Contemporary fall dress complete!
Front! All I had to do last night was hem the sleeves, lining and skirt. I was pleased to remember (finally) that I had acquired a skirt hem marking thingymajiggy,…
Front! All I had to do last night was hem the sleeves, lining and skirt. I was pleased to remember (finally) that I had acquired a skirt hem marking thingymajiggy,…
I found this fabric yesterday at F-land and it just said “take me home”. It is navy blue with orange, cream and green graphic elements. I brought it home and…
Yesterday I spent several hours unpinning and repinning the pieces of the Paris Plaid jacket. I realized that I had cut out the side front pieces on an incorrect grain…
I bought 2.5m of wool blend plaid in Paris in 2016, and have been saving it to make a Chanel-style cardigan jacket with couture construction methods. It has been laid…
Here we are in 2019 and I still have this blog! I’ve renewed the domain name three times, pledging that one day I would return to blogging, and here I…
This is my second time attempting a PDF pattern garment. The first was a Burda dress and let's just say it didn't go too well. Just looking at pictures online…
Well, the trip to Europe is done, and I am home. Thanks to international travel and jet lag, I snagged myself a nasty cold on the day of my return…
Excerpt from my Paris journal for March 22: Paris Journal Day 2 - Tuesday, March 22 Getting up this morning was quite arduous. Actually, the problem was that I couldn't…
What do you do when your hair is BLUE? You wear BRIGHT orange and blue clothes, of course. In this case, it was all part of my Pattern Review Wardrobe…
This is another rendition of my simple top block with a drapey collar added in to it. In this project, I re-traced the pattern pieces because they were starting to get…