I havent deviated from my plan yet! I am still working systematically through the Love At First Stitch book from Tilly Walnes. The next project in the book is the Megan dress. This is a dress that had appeared on my Twitter and Instagram feed quite a lot recently so I was really looking forward to making one for myself. I didn’t have any medium weight cottons in so chose firm woven polyester knits for both makes!
Continue reading ➞ The Week of Megan Dresses
As I am working my way through the Love At First Stitch book from Tilly & the Buttons, my next project was to be the Delphine skirt. The skirt is a simple a-line skirt with a certain amount of structure. I chose to use some fabric that I had found at an estate sale; very cheap as I got the full box of fabric for $5. I can’t even describe this fabric because I’m RUBBISH at recognising fabrics. All I can tell you is that it is woven, quite thick and makes my scissors fluffy!
I set out cutting the material and it worked perfectly with the small amount of fabric that I had. I just had enough interfacing left to use too. I cut a size 5 for this, despite my hip measurement being closer to a 4. I thought it would be better to match the pattern to my waist as that is where the fastening would sit. I was really impressed with how the skirt came together to start with. Overlocking was a breeze and it resembled a skirt very quickly *happy dance*. I inserted an invisible zip and it was invisible! My last attempt at inserting an invisible zip was successful as the zip looked fabulous, it just wasn’t invisible. I concentrated more this time and managed to do it using only a normal zipper foot.
Continue reading ➞ The Delphine
The next project in the Love At First Stitch book was the Margot Pyjamas. Every time I see these being blogged about, I can’t help but think of the Margo character from The Good Life. I’m sure that they are not linked in any way but she was in my mind EVERY time I worked on this project! Crazy.
Continue reading ➞ The Good Life PJs
Welcome to Talented Tuesday No. 12!
Last week was super busy for us at home, so I publicly apologising for lack of social media and blog posts! We are currently selling our house back in the UK and we totally underestimated how complicated it would be! We are hoping that all the paperwork is now done and dusted, for now anyway! In between emails and phone calls, I managed to get a couple of items made and we had a lovely Saturday by the bay.
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Continue reading ➞ Talented Tuesday Link Party – No. 12
Back in November I made a dress from my vintage stash using this pattern. It’s the Simplicity 8541 from back in 1969…I could have submitted it for the 2014 vintage pledge but I didn’t.
This was my first time using a polyester knit for a garment and it just didn’t go smoothly. I couldn’t get the collar to sit right, the pleat had disappeared and it was too tight. It was put into the cupboard and forgotten about. However, I got it out to try on earlier this week as I wanted to use the left over material for something else I had in mind. I put it on and then wondered what I had been fussing about when I made it. The collar isn’t a disaster, it’s ok and it wasn’t as tight as I remembered it being! So here I am today, blogging about it!
Continue reading ➞ The Dress That Almost Wasn’t Blogged About… & a Tilly Brigitte Scarf
Here are seven photos from my week. Don’t forget to join in next week and use the tag #sundaysevens 🙂
1. I only brought 2 pairs of everyday shoes to the US with me; 2 pairs of well worn Vans pumps. One pair got extremely wet in rainy New Orleans and stunk, so I washed them and because they were hairy zebra print…they melted and all of the hairs fell off 😦 My second pair were a beautiful tan pump with pink/purple aztec prints on the heel…I ripped them last week! Anyway, I managed to get 3 new pairs :-D.
Continue reading ➞ Sunday Sevens #18
threads + bobbins 