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Winter red soft pleated waist skirt
A skirt with soft deep pleats near the waistline in thick boiled wool? Lucky I have a teenage daughter! This style is perfect for her. Technical details BurdaStyle 11-2011-116A Size: 34-42, I made a 38 for my daughter Fabric: Boiled … Continue reading
More fabric purchasing
(It’s designer fabric sale time again). The mystery fabric is quite gorgeous. It was purchased as a sample by the designer some time ago, but never used. The fibre composition isn’t known any more but it feels like a synthetic, … Continue reading
Wrapping up another blouse
I knew I needed to make another wrap front blouse. The teenage fashion critic does not approve of the print for this style. I confess I did buy this fabric with a fun winter coat lining in mind. She does … Continue reading
Rhonda lends me her shoulders pattern
I’ve been beta testing designer original patterns. Woohoo! Rhonda from Rhonda’s Creative Life is a pattern drafter extraordinaire. She posts lots of relatively simple and free designs every Friday on her website as well as a host of other fabulous … Continue reading
The Non Tailored Jacket
No facings, no interfacing, no lining, no seam or edge finishing, no roll lines, no turn of cloth allowance, no pressing as I sewed. Not very tailored. Also a bit too big. Perhaps I should stick to BurdaStyle patterns. I … Continue reading
The Big Winter Coat Finale
Here it is, in the fading late afternoon winter sun. Everything is done, apart from taking it to the drycleaners for a professional pressing (I hope that’s why the hem doesn’t look perfectly smooth yet..) This has been a long … Continue reading
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Savoury scones and parnsip soup with brown butter
Delicious buttery parsnip soup and scones. Perfect for a cold and rainy winters evening While the soup was great, the scones turned out fabulous. I was very surprised. I’ve never really believed those people who say that scones are so … Continue reading
The Big Winter Coat Part 3
The sleeves have zips (thanks again to Tany for her great tutorial) The collar and facing are in, but the coat is still unlined and armless. The reason for my slow progress? I’m blaming delicious cheese platters.. and open fires … Continue reading
Pea and Ham Soup
So.. I have finally made something from ‘Masterchef’….. You see I challenged myself to try the trickiest and most elaborate dish, one that will easily sort out the professionals from the pretenders the dish that requires great skill and care….. … Continue reading
Another episode of The Big Winter Coat
I still haven’t made it to the sewing room with this project, but I spent quite a few hours on it again this weekend. What did I do? Pattern pieces traced off and/or drafted 25 pieces for a simple princess … Continue reading
Oh lard won’t you bake me a Cornish pasty
Hello and welcome to our hundredth blog post! Now isn’t that a milestone! My apologies to Janice Joplin for the title and I couldn’t help slipping in the pun, I thought seeing as I haven’t had a food related blog … Continue reading
(aahh …aahh) French onion (aahh) soup (choo)
Ab you can tell fromb the title I hab a cold…sniff… We have avoided the worst of the dreaded lergy this winter, but the one by one the house has succumbed to a head cold this week. So as head … Continue reading
