I was in Melbourne the weekend before last, to visit family and friends, and Moggy and I went fabric shopping. I bought two dress lengths, ...

This vintage vogue reissue pattern... Plus this vintage cotton fabric (from etsy)... Made this dress... I changed the waist gathers to four...

El Luchador loco! My first crochet project! I used this pattern. There's a few mistakes in there but I don't care! I love him! This...

...New Look love, that is... I had a hankering for a bolero so I popped along to Cleg's pattern and remnant sale (half price patterns,...

As Kitty and I were having our usual online-chatting-while-sewing-or-otherwise-craftifying, we discussed how despite both having a metric he...

I wanted to make a frock to replace this one , which I gave to my pregnant friend in New York when I was there several months ago. She tried...

 It seems absolutely ages since I posted, or indeed sewed. This weekend, aided by the lovely autumn weather, I remedied that terrible oversi...

Sorry about the no-posting-for-yonks. We had a house guest for ages, so the sewing room was packed up. Bonus of no sewing - I taught mysel...

I went to a wedding recently where the bridesmaids wore infinite dresses, in black, all tied differently. I thought it would be fun to make...

It's only a week until my fortnight's jaunt to Europe, so I thought I'd post a couple of my new tripfits. According to the weat...

I am going to a wedding this week, on Thursday evening. I was going to wear vintage Heidi , with a sparkly turquoise crystal necklace, but t...

Here is New Look 6968 again, in scribbly ponte. I made view B minus the welts, and with the sleeves from view D. I wore her out to dinner t...