So, at long last I have ‘documented’ this dress. More recently I made the deer hunting dress with the same pattern, and for a more detailed explanation of my experiences with Butterick 5605 go here and then here. But when I said I’ve ‘documented’ it, you knew it was just going to be a couple [...]
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Butterick 5605, aka Me-Made-May 5th
Posted in Uncategorized on May 6, 2012 | 3 Comments »
Me! Me! Me-Made-May!
Posted in Uncategorized on May 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
(May 1st, me-made skirt) I have signed myself up for the rigorous challenge of Me-Made-May ’12, the brainchild of the marvellous Zoe where one seeks to wear self-stitched clothes for the month of May but defines their own challenge. My pledge went a little something like this: ‘I, Lotte, sign up as a participant of Me-Made-May [...]
Such deliciousness!
Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Aunty Chris brought feijoas with her when she came to visit! So many feijoas. I ate a tonne of them and now we are going to bottle a tonne of them. This is my other conquest – Alfajores, a South American treat. The dough is pretty crumbly, but boiling a can of condensed milk for [...]
Deer hunting cocktail dress, preview
Posted in Uncategorized on April 9, 2012 | 1 Comment »
I was hoping to have finished this today but “de-flea”ing ones home turns out to be quite an involved process when there’s a two year old (two and 3/4′s, actually, geez) dragging clothes, blankets and toys through the house. Fortunately my sewing room isn’t part of the house so when I let off the flea [...]
This one is for Charlotte
Posted in Uncategorized on February 14, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Because Charlotte sent me that t-shirt in the post a year ago and I didn’t wear it. And she got a little bit cross! But you see Charlotte, I’m not very good at wearing pale blue things… until the perfect skirt comes hopping out of the Salvation Army with me… Oh, did I happen to [...]
Sewing Corner!
Posted in Uncategorized on February 6, 2012 | 5 Comments »
Since we moved, I no longer have a designated sewing room. But I’m not complaining because I have a whole corner to myself in our sleep-out! It has white walls (not ghastly wallpaper) but a lot of dead ants falling out of the rafters. And I have an imperative to keep it tidy as Clementine [...]
pretty arrangements central
Posted in Uncategorized on December 27, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Strings for pretty things (including a tea towel made by my future sister-in-law) Then I spent a lot of time turning the ‘laundry’ into the ‘pantry’. The washing machine is the only indicator that this room, viewed from the kitchen, might be a laundry. So a whole lot of preserves, appliances and cake tins suggest [...]
That dress I made a while back
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2011 | 1 Comment »
It has served me well.
Helping to choose buttons
Posted in Uncategorized on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The other day a little brooch arrived in the post from Charlotte, who is currently studying in Charlotte, North Carolina. The little brooch gave me a jolt because about a month ago I found this lovely coaster in the opshop. (Did I mention that I quite like the primary colours at the moment? Did I? [...]
A “Broccoli” Skirt
Posted in Uncategorized on December 5, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Rata is cute and she quite likes broccoli. She likes to eat it while we’re pootling about in the garden. This is the one piece of fabric I haven’t packed up ready for moving house, and when I asked Rata if she’d like a skirt made out if it she said ‘This fabric has broccoli [...]
