Remember me saying that I fancied making a Regency dress for the summer? Well, I went and grabbed myself a copy of Simplicity 4055, read a number of reviews online, and started sewing. Normally in a Simplicity pattern I’d cut a size 18, but I’d read that this pattern came up large, and I knew [...]
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Regency Summer
Posted in Uncategorized on May 27th, 2011
Today I would like to both praise and curse my friend Rhona, for being an extremely bad influence. At the beginning of July I’m going to London for a three-day weekend with friends. Being London, and being July, I expect it to be excruciatingly hot and stuffy. (It’ll probably rain now.) In order to try and stay [...]
Remember the dress I made for the Vintage Vogue competition? The deadline was today, so yesterday after work Paul and I rushed out to take some pictures. This is the one that I sent off to accompany my entry.
I think this is going to be my entry to the Vintage Vogue competition. I’m not 100% certain whether it’s finished, or whether the seams go on the inside or the outside. I’m going to wear it and live with it for a bit before I decide. I also need to take lots of photos, which [...]
As promised a couple of days ago, here’s an almost-finished Burda 7808. Just the hand-sewing and thread-neatening to go, and then it’s done. As it turns out, I followed the instructions more than I expected to – although there are a few things that I’ll change next time. I added extra gathering to both the [...]
This is Burda 7808. (Information now only available in German, since the English site has merged with Burda Style and all the patterns are gone. *sigh*) I bought the pattern yesterday because the weather’s gone mad, and I’m going to need some kind of loose summer dress so that I don’t inadvertently boil inside my own [...]
Desigual
Posted in inspiration, shopping on Sep 8th, 2009
I went shopping with my sister at the weekend. (Hi Jo!) I don’t go shopping very often these days, so it was great fun to go round all the department stores and see what’s in fashion at the moment. I almost fell down with excitement when we wandered into a new concession in House of [...]