Posted in inspiration, shopping, trousers on Jan 6th, 2009
I’ve also been thinking about trousers for a good long while.
I’m in desperate need of some new jeans, as my current ones are both slightly threadbare and much too small. I did try on a few pairs in the sales, but the fit was so terrible that I didn’t feel terribly inclined to buy any.
I’ve [...]
You know that strange phenomenon where as soon as you start to become obsessed by something, you suddenly see it everywhere?
I was flipping through the February edition of Elle UK, and spotted these lovelies:
I wonder what colour those patent Church’s brogues are in Real Life? Once again they’re Oxfords though, so I wouldn’t be able [...]
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Jan 1st, 2009
I still can’t blog about the piece that I’m working on at the moment - it’s a wedding dress, and it needs to be kept secret for another couple of weeks!
In the meantime I will start as I men to go on, and talk to you about shoes.
Since I received the Handmade Shoes for Men book, [...]
Posted in shopping on Dec 29th, 2008
I’ve just had a little revamp of the Shop page.
Hopefully this will make it easier to work out which items I’m currently taking orders for.
The categories, in case it isn’t obvious from the pictures, are: Corsets, Slippers, Hats & Scarves and Knitting Patterns.
Delivery times will vary, depending on how many things I’m trying to make at the same [...]
Posted in inspiration, shoes, shopping on Dec 27th, 2008
Paul gave this book to me for Christmas. It is simultaneously both the best and the worst book that I have ever owned!
Handmade Shoes for Men tells you pretty much everything you need to know about making men’s shoes by hand. The only automated part of the process is the carving of individually-tailored lasts. Every other [...]
I’ve been a bit quiet around here lately, mostly because all the things I’m making are for other people’s Christmas presents, so I can’t show you any pictures for another couple of weeks!
It’s also been absolutely pouring with rain for days and days. This is the second day in a row where it doesn’t seem [...]
Posted in shopping on Dec 7th, 2008
I was supposed to be at a local craft fair today.
Unfortunately, my central heating boiler’s stopped working, so I have to stay at home and wait for an engineer to come and have a look at it.
As a result, I can now offer you all of the goodies that I would have taken to the [...]
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Dec 5th, 2008
I blame Erin, of A Dress A Day. She frequently posts very beautiful things on her blog, and normally I manage to resist.
This time, however, I seem to have fallen madly in love.
These beauties are designed by Samiah.
They’re the Winterfield and the Bailey.
I’m a sucker for coats, and I’m a sucker for heavy furnishing-style fabrics, [...]
Thanks to a combination of my new medicine and the truly dreary weather we’ve been having lately, I’ve been finding it very difficult to feel inspired by anything much.
Suddenly, thanks to a little visit from the postman, I feel much better!
(Sorry about the terrible picture - it’s raining so hard that it’s been dark all [...]
Okay, I admit it, I made that word up.
When Laura came to try on her mock-up, we ummed and aahed about the sleeves, but decided to go for it, and see what happened. As it turned out, Laura preferred the dress without the sleeves, so this morning I chopped them off!
There, that’s better.
Laura also sent [...]
