I really enjoy collecting small, low-value items (including Wedgewood Christmas thimbles and 90s edition Goosebumps novels). I’d started accumulating protest badges attending rallies and similar events and it inspired by to start a mini collection, with vintage badges, courtesy of ebay, added alongside the contemporary ones. This badge collection was just sitting in my jewellery […]
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Last year, I made two versions of the Maison Fauve Malibu Polo using some pointelle knit fabric which had been in my stash forever. The polo shirts got lots of wear last summer and I thought it would be good to actually follow the recommended fabric instructions and try the pattern in a woven fabric. My mom
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A couple of pictures taken a few weeks ago in our local park. I don’t think I’ve ever shared any pictures of this matching Hello Kitty (Grainline Studio) set being worn together. Back in 2023, we visited Japan and I bought a Hello Kitty quilted fabric from Tomato to make a Grainline Tamarack jacket. I
This is a Tilly and the Buttons Drew Sweatshirt made using fabric scraps I retrieved from our bin! The last time I had a big tidy of my fabric stash, around a year ago, I was determined to reduce it down to a couple of tubs of fabric lengths (stored in our bedroom), plus one
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I’ve been writing an end-of-year post summarising what I’ve gotten up to and any reflections since at least 2014, shortly after I started blogging. I really enjoy having a little reminisce, and having the posts to look back at, so am doing the same this year despite it being February already! A holiday normally spurs
I finished a new angel for the top of our Christmas tree on the 03rd of January. I knew I wanted to make a new angel this year, but with one thing and another it took me a while to get around to making him. He’s roughly based on two images of angels I photographed
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I’ve been meaning to make a Cocowawa Crafts Honeycomb Dress since the pattern was originally released in, I think, 2018. Over the course of this year, I’ve had a good sort and weed of my fabric stash (which is now restricted to two tubs), and also of my digital and paper pattern stashes. It’s had
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This is my second Named Clothing Kielo Wrap Dress. I’ve worn the first Kielo dress I made (back in 2019) regularly, and I thought a second Kielo would be a good addition to my wardrobe. Like my first Kielo, this one is made in a woven fabric. I think the pattern instructions originally suggested that
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I bought two metres of pointelle knit fabric (one metre in pink and one metre in green) from the Higgs & Higgs stand at a sewing show back in 2017, with the intention of making a polo shirt. The fabric has sat in my stash ever since, but I pulled it out recently when rationalising
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I started this Barberry Jacket around four years ago, while developing the pattern. I had almost finished it – it was just missing buttons, buttonholes and the lining hem needed securing – and then I left it hanging uncompleted for the next four years. In a recent fit of finishing UFOs and wardrobe tidying, I
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