Making clothes
14 February 2011
I’m still sewing my winter dress though it definitely seems to be spring here. Snowdrops, crocuses, birds singing, that sort of thing… The dress has so far been an almighty pain in the arse to sew together, and it feels like it’s taking forever. I’m trying to think of it as (another) learning experience. Things […]
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Design & ideas
26 January 2011
Design I want to make a fitted winter dress to wear to work – a sort of grown-up pinafore dress really. The style I’ve got in mind is sleeveless and made in a medium-weight fabric, worn with a long-sleeve top underneath it and combined with tights and long boots. There’s a dress (pattern 17) in […]
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