Thursday, 16 January 2025

House modification projects

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I am practicing using this blog again after my long hiatis. Here is a very boring, but extremely cost effective and useful project I sewed n...
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Friday, 17 February 2023

Burda Style 03-2020-121 Dress for Engagement photos

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 This is a very exciting post for me. DD2 is engaged to Future Son-In-Law, who now that he is almost a member of our family, I consider to b...
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Sunday, 27 November 2022

A dress to wear to a wedding, Burda Style 10- 2012-118, or is it BurdaStyle 02-2021-119?

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 I am making a Maid of Honour dress for my older daughter. In this modern relaxed Australian wedding each female member of the wedding party...
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Sunday, 24 July 2022

Another Birthday dress, and a Sirdar Birthday cardigan. The perils of knitting taking longer than sewing.

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 Conveniently, two of my friends have little girls who are 3 months apart in age. Naturally, when I was invited to the younger baby's fi...
Friday, 15 July 2022

Three times lucky BurdaStyle 06-2020-103/104

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  Technical Image from BurdaStyle.com I seem to have a habit of making several dresses from the same pattern, all in a row. Often this is be...
Saturday, 4 June 2022

Reconstruction: Linen dress not quite as good as the original garment, but much more useful

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 Doesn't the Lady Grey Colette coat adaptation look lovely under the Jacaranda in this photo? I was half pleased with myself when I made...
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Sunday, 13 February 2022

First Birthday dress

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 This has been a highly enjoyable project. My friend bought some fabric for me, and asked me to make a birthday dress for her beautiful litt...
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