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Pencil Skirt with a different kind of kick pleat.
This is another pencil skirt using Gerties double darted Pencil Skirt pattern from her first book that I’ve made before here. I used a couple of ideas on it that I thought may be of interest,...
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Pencil Skirts and Pegging.
I’ve needed to take in a number of skirts of late, and it has made me revisit the topic of the perfect pegged shape, as I attempt to get a shape closer to the ready-to-wear look that I like. One thing...
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Vintage Lace Dress & Changes
This dress is made from a “vintage” tablecloth. I remember buying it myself in the 1980s as a gift for my mother and rediscovered it a few months back in the back of the linen cupboard and thought it...
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Burda 7494 Polka Dot Spring Dress
I have loved Burda 7494 ever since I saw the many beautiful versions from Julia Bobbin and finally sewed up two in quick succession this week. This first version is in a simple cotton poplin and I...
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1960s Vintage Lace Dress
This is a fitted dress I made for a wedding using some beautiful vintage guipure lace. The colour is a really watery sea blue green, and it is underlined in some cream dupion silk, also quite old and...
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Burda 7494 & McCalls 6706 in Linen
This beautiful fabric is a very fine and lovely linen from Joys Fabric Warehouse. The dress is a modified Burda 7494 bodice with McCalls 6706 skirt added. For the neckline I just redrew it into a v on...
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Reusing Vintage Wool – Sheath Dress and Sew & Gather Weekend Retreat – 28-30...
We’ve had a few weeks of cold weather (well, cold to us warm blooded Sydney-siders at least) and I’ve been working with wool. I love sewing with wool, it is my hands down favourite how it responds so...
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Winter Wool Dress, Echo’s of 1956
Here is another wool dress with my much loved triple darted sleeve, using a woven wool suiting fabric from ebay and with a design that is very much something that my grandmother would have made and...
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Dress for a wedding and stabilizing a low back neckline.
My poor neglected blog! I’ve been so busy and this blog isn’t as important to me as it used to be. I am doing well, better than I have for a long time actually. I have an autoimmune disease that has...
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Pencil Skirt with a different kind of kick pleat.
This is another pencil skirt using Gerties double darted Pencil Skirt pattern from her first book that I’ve made before here. I used a couple of ideas on it that I thought may be of interest,...
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Pencil Skirts and Pegging.
I’ve needed to take in a number of skirts of late, and it has made me revisit the topic of the perfect pegged shape, as I attempt to get a shape closer to the ready-to-wear look that I like. One thing...
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Lace Dress McCalls 6706 and Colette Patterns Peony
This dress is made from a “vintage” tablecloth. I remember buying it myself in the 1980s as a gift for my mother and rediscovered it a few months back in the back of the linen cupboard and thought it...
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I’m over on instragram
Hello, sewing community. As you may have noticed, I have stopped blogging. Sewing is still a huge part of my life, I’ve just moved location from time consuming blogging to quick and easy Instagram. I...
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