This is the second dress I’ve made for Diane, using recycled 1970s print bedding. (The first one is here.) This one’s a very pretty, girly design with plenty of hearts and flowers. It’s made from half of a duvet cover, and Diane’s kept the other half to turn into a quilt. If you’d like to [...]
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This is Folkwear 117, the Croatian Shirt. I bought the pattern intending to make it in the dress length, but I didn’t have anything like enough of this cotton lawn, so I made a rather short shirt instead. I started this project about eight months ago, and then it was put to one side while [...]
I made this for Dott, the proud owner of a matching corset! It’s made from a vintage duvet cover, except for the stripy bits which are new. I have a moderately-sized stash of vintage children’s duvet covers and curtains, so I’ll be making a few more of these.
Gingham dress and a price list.
Posted in sewing on Mar 24th, 2009
This is the second incarnation of my new dress pattern – this time in a black and white polycotton gingham. This one’s a bit longer than the first one, and trimmed with black broderie anglais/eyelet. I’ve now worked out my pricing structure, and it looks like this: Reclaimed/recycled fabric: £90 Hand dyed organic cotton: £120 [...]
Terracotta Dress
Posted in sewing on Mar 13th, 2009
This is what’s been keeping me busy this week – designing, drafting and making a new dress. Once I’ve sorted out a pricing structure and a size chart and some other information, I’ll be putting this up for sale, and taking orders. (Assuming that anybody else thinks it’s a nice dress, and that the credit [...]
Yesterday I finished off a dress that’s been almost done for far too long. It was mostly already finished. I just had to add the waistband, sew the top and bottom halves together, and add elastic and binding. Ta daa. I have a sneaky suspicion it’s going to be too long in the bodice for [...]
Amazing psychedelic twill!
Posted in fabric, inspiration on Jan 27th, 2009
A giant parcel arrived for me yesterday – look what was inside! This fabric is a bit of a mystery… it was sent to me by a friend, but I have no idea how old it is, what it’s made from, or what it was originally designed to be used for. It’s a heavy twill, [...]
Inspired by Ruth Singer, I’ve spent this afternoon making a wall hanging organiser for all my reels of thread. (Possibly not the cleverest thing to do when suffering with a bad wrist and a splitting headache, but hey.) Take one enormous cork board, a hundred and eighteen panel pins, and a big hammer… I particularly [...]