Here’s what I’m working on at present – a chips dress! But first, does anyone know with doing a neckline on a t-shirt – you know where you use the ribbing or whatever it is called -whether you sew it to the outside, fold it over and sew, or start on the inside? I have [...]
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Hot Chips!
Posted in Sewing on May 8, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Actually, I can’t sleep, so I’ll show you summat else…
Posted in Sewing on April 29, 2012 | 3 Comments »
I made a pair of pants for Rata on… Tuesday? All the days have rolled into one this week. It’s some fabric I have enough of to make leggings for my self with, but there’s plenty for all. I’m still on that $1 bag of fabric buzz, one year later. Rata’s legs and arms are [...]
Pyjamas in the workplace!
Posted in Sewing on April 28, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Huzzah! My new dress is luxurious. I felt like I had worn pyjamas to work, and not in the freelance, work in bed kind of a way. The most public of workplaces, the shop floor on a Saturday. So this is my contribution to Karen‘s Pyjama Party, even if I do feel a bit cheeky. [...]
Petticoat Poof!
Posted in Sewing on April 17, 2012 | 4 Comments »
A piece of calico came my way and I thought it would make an excellent petticoat. I made one when I was 18, and the smell of calico also reminded me of sewing projects when I was twelve when I was obsessed with the Little House books and would ask for things like ‘a bolt [...]
Poor little career girl
Posted in Sewing on March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Oh my, someone called Lotte is tired. So tired. Working 20+ hours a week when it’s the school holidays and Louis is at home is a holiday in itself. Working 20+ hours while it’s term time, trying to fit in Playcentre around it, taking Rata on the train with me two days a week, cooking [...]
Dress pattern proves its worth
Posted in Sewing on February 2, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
On Saturday I dusted off a dress I don’t wear much for work – because I had nothing else clean enough or ironed enough to wear to work and it was 6am. Fortunately, even if I’ve ironed the collar of this dress it still sticks up funny, so I wasn’t too worried about that… I [...]
Butterick 5605, part two
Posted in Sewing on December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After a wee bit of the kind of pinning that only comes when female relatives drop by, my step-mother and I worked out what changes needed to be made to my dear little dress. Kath put the strappy-joiny bit into place, then worked out where the zip needed to be. I carefully unpicked what I [...]
The “inbetween-projects” skirt (this time! really!)
Posted in Sewing on November 21, 2011 | 2 Comments »
(oh okay! not really because you can’t see the whole thing! stop complaining and come round to help me take a picture, will you?) So here’s the back! And the front! I’m not planning to wear this T-shirt with it… but now that a customer has demonstrated the power of the leggings and (our) red [...]
The “inbetween-projects” skirt
Posted in Sewing on November 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I was all rearing to go with fixing the zip on my blue dress (not) when suddenly I had to make some skirts. Because all this sugar-free virtue has done wonders for my waistline. Which, uh, contradictorily, means that all my skirts sit at frumpily bad places on my hips. Because I had set out [...]
Butterick 5605, part one
Posted in Sewing on November 8, 2011 | 7 Comments »
I am making a dress! With a pattern! Friends, I cannot describe how lovely it is to have my hand held by a set of instructions and friendly notches that match up. ALTHOUGH. Let me take a step back here. I did not have enough of this glorious fabric to make this dress (it was [...]
