Category: Liberty

#SimplicitySewingChallenge – Simplicity 1365 – View C by the sea
#SimplicitySewingChallenge · jersey · Liberty · Sewing · Simplicity 1365

#SimplicitySewingChallenge – Simplicity 1365 – View C by the sea

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Simplicity 1365 is a sassy seventies sew.  Think Barbara Bach modelling Bus Stop, think Farrah Fawcett in Charlie’s Angels , think Linda Carter in Wonder Woman. Think middle-aged lass arsing about in America. #Holiday #ByTheSea #SaltMarsh #MultipleInsectBites It’s mostly rendered in a liberty print called Beth’s Flowers and it’s jersey.  Rendering this is jersey meant that I could… Continue reading #SimplicitySewingChallenge – Simplicity 1365 – View C by the sea

fabric scraps · Famous Frocks The Little Black Dress · foraged fabric · Liberty · Sewing · Sleeveless Shell

In Search of a Sleeveless Shell – Diana Variation

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I’m on a quest and I think dear Reader that I will need your assistance.  I’m looking for a pattern for the perfect sleeveless shell.  I want a pattern that uses maybe a metre or a metre and a half of fabric.  A pattern that can be used with my odd-shaped leftovers, my remnants and my… Continue reading In Search of a Sleeveless Shell – Diana Variation

I’m a little bit testy and a little bit floral.
knitting · Liberty · MMM14 · Natural Dye Studio · refashion

I’m a little bit testy and a little bit floral.

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Oh, me oh my, it’s been a testing week and I mean that in the literal sense of the word that it has been a week that has contained very many tests.  Thank you (absolutely and resoundingly NOT) to whomsoever devised the mandatory testing of ten year olds.  There have been tears, there have been troubled nights, there were tonsils the size of… Continue reading I’m a little bit testy and a little bit floral.

Step Away from the Seventies.
Liberty · Sewing · Style 3753

Step Away from the Seventies.

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What *is* my problem?  The women on the pattern envelope could have stepped straight from the rough-to-the-touch pages of my Bunty, Judy or Misty magazines.  Well maybe not Misty as that was a little darker, the strap line on the envelope would have had to read ‘Little did Taffy know, the ring was bewitched’. Why… Continue reading Step Away from the Seventies.