My baby Sofie graduated from high school recently and I made her a new dress for her Valedictory dinner. I anticipated this event a while back and bought some silk chiffon from China on my last...
I am a very lazy blogger. And a lazy sewer! But not to worry. I have recently made another formal dress for Sofie. We used the following dress from Net-A-Porter as inspiration...
Quite awhile ago, Sofie and I bought some quilting cottons in green and pink to decorate her room. First project was to make an upholstered headboard. After much research (thank God for the Internet)...
2010 has been a quiet year for me sewing wise but it was a big year for Sofie. A few posts back I talked about Sofies year 12 VCE Studio Arts pieces. As part of her assessment she was required to pro...
Ellen, my eldest daughter, is a film student. She has just finished her second year at Swinburne Uni. Being a big David Lynch fan, when she found out he was running a competition for a music video, s...
Sofie asked me to make her year 11 school Formal dress. She wanted something unique and as she said something "made with love". How could I refuse? We chose Burda 12-2006-113. Fabrics were pu...
Thanks everyone for all the nice comments and the compliments on the new hair “do”. My usual hairdresser wasn’t working on the night of my last appointment and I had someone new. I was a bit scared a...
I managed to get one more top in for the challenge. Cut out in April but sewn up in May - that counts doesnt it?I used good old Kwik Sew 3338 - basic T top. I made some changes to look like that very...
Thanks everyone for the welcome back! As you know I have been here but just watching from the sidelines. Thanks for all your posts over the past year - I have enjoyed them all and learnt a lot. And h...
It has been a long time between drinks! But hopefully I am back into the sewing mode now.I signed up for Fayes Spring Month of Tops - which is a bit silly as it is Autumn here. But I have managed to ...
Thankyou ladies for all your suggestions. You had some great ideas. I love Belindas suggestion to add a band and topstitch that. And I hear you when you say that the topstitching will be lost in the ...
I was planning to make this coat:with this fabric:But the bottom of the coat is curved and the fabric has checks (obvious straight lines). I was thinking the topstitching would be easy along the line...
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