A pittance is all I have to show you after all this time. A couple of weeks ago I started to make vintage Simplicity 6672 (sometimes called...

Last week I did a practice pack for next week's trip and thought I had everything. But then I read the weather for Los Angeles and appar...

It occurred to me the other day that all those maxi dresses you see around - on sale of course! - would be the ideal candidate for refashion...

I am in the midst of knitting a baby blanket for a colleague: It's the 'Old Shale Baby Blanket'. It's an easy knit, but loo...

I'm having a housewarming luau in a few weeks, and not surprisingly I have a few tropical frocks to choose from. I think I have deci...

In honour of Australia Day (day off, woo!), I organised my stash. Organising in my world doesn't mean colour coding, categorising by ty...

I made another Vogue 3013 the other day, in some cherry blossom fabric I bought in Tokyo nearly 2 years ago. This pattern is like my fitti...

As promised, here is the dress I cut out yesterday along with the shruglero. I have named her Wrongrose in honour of Livebird's comment ...

I think this is a bolero, however the pattern ( McCalls 5006 ) says 'shrug' - so I shall compromise with Shruglero! I have a dress ...

A couple of simple cushions for the sofa, in green 'boomerang beat' fabric. No fancy piping or anything, too lazy and the fabric is ...

The frock below was the muslin for this dress , and which I roughly put together to test my pattern draft. I finished it off today, and it...

Part of my trip preparation ritual is making a new bag. I like to have a bag to carry stuff on the plane and for wandering about the streets...