Dolly’s all grown up – or giving your dress form ‘assets’

Remember Dolly? Well, she’s gone through puberty rather rapidly: That’s kinda balanced out those hips a bit, but her shape does look rather ridiculous!  (Well, I suppose, my shape does look rather ridiculous!) I’m quite happy with her shape and size now, though I probably need to put a little padding on the hips (they’re [...]

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Fabric and Pattern Haul – Part 2

So, for today, here’s the rest of that haul!  Two more patterns and some more fabric. So, that fabric – this was a purchase of love: Again, I couldn’t get the colour quite right in the photo, but it’s a soft mauve-grey – this tiny picture shows the colours a bit better: Those flowers – [...]

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Fabric and Pattern Haul – Part 1

Well, this might not quite qualify as a haul, as these things were bought a bit at a time over the past week or two, but I thought I’d share them with you all together. I’ve had my beady little eye on Ebay lately, specifically on bargain vintage patterns.  I have a couple of simple [...]

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We Have Productivity, Captain!

See, all that work on Tilly’s Sewing Productivity Project wasn’t just procrastination!  I’ve spent a couple of days sewing over the long weekend (though now I have coldy-migraine-y badness going on, so bleh!). Speaking of Tilly’s project, she has collated an excellent list of tips from the various participants: go look up some tips for [...]

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The Sewing Productivity Project – Part the Second

So, last week (week commencing 11th April).  No sewing.  But I did have a big uni hand in on the Friday, and pretty much all my time at home was spent working on this, lesson planning, eating or sleeping.  I didn’t even do any cleaning or load the washing machine (and you could tell from [...]

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Tilly and the Buttons and her Sewing Productivity Project – Part the First

We all have days (weeks … months … years?) where we’re less than productive, where our motivation is non-existent and where we just can’t seem to muster the energy to do much more than vegetate in front of the TV or computer.  And there are those times where we seem to have been constantly busy, [...]

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Not a Miss Selfridge Dog-tooth Check Dress

Back in the summer I fell in love with this dress from Miss Selfridge: That collar, those little cute button details and dogtooth check – what’s not to love? Oh yeah, the fit. As soon as I saw it, I was in love with this dress – I walked past its window on my way [...]

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Stays, Now With Eyelets!

Yep, that’s right – all those pesky little hand-sewn eyelets are done and the straps are attached: Though they started off a little shaky: The bottom one that you can’t see very well was my first effort – it’s probably just as well it’s not very clear on the photo as it looks awful!!  I [...]

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Summer Dress – Finished!

This is what I’ve been so busy with this week: The pattern (McCalls 6110) caught my eye because it’s a similar shape to a royal blue sun dress I always wear to death over the summer months, plus it reminded me of a chemise a la reine with the gathered front, under-bust tie and loose [...]

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Retro Butterick – Done!

Remember that Retro Butterick pattern B4790?  Well, it’s finally finished!! First off, apologies for the rubbish photos – I took some with my camera whose battery then died, so I took some with my phone, but when I went to upload them, the ones on my camera had not saved, so only rubbish phone pictures, [...]

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