Grey Areas

Not much happened on the PR Pattern Stash Contest Front, I am afraid.  I finished two items and the third has been on the sewing table for two weeks...mostly because disaster struck. The geyser of our home burst.  It used to be built in behind an oak closet in the spare room. The closet and …

Simplicity 7030: Something for the Payer of Fabric Store Invoices

  The last few weeks were dominated by two men’s shirts creating a bottleneck in the sewing flow. The man of the house had been throwing sideways comments about “never getting anything”.  Not quite true, I made him a shirt already this year (two if you consider I made the same shirt twice because I …

Toasted chocolate and the quest for the perfect winter top

I baked choc chip cookies this weekend. And because I wandered off into the sewing nook while the last batch was in the oven, they got a bit overdone. But that was in line with the theme  I had going on this weekend: Chocolate-charcoal.  I hated the colour of this fabric while I was working …

No room for error, nowhere to hide…

The previous post was published without a picture.  See, I figured I could type the text while I was watching Master Chef, and then post a picture once I had taken one...which would be once I had actually, well...finished the shirt. Which was supposed to be about half an hour later because the shirt, at …

‘Not-the-Valentine’ dress

One day, when I popped into a fabric store for something small, a roll of printed silk just ambushed me. It was irresistible, so I brought some home with not much of an idea how it would end up. But the background story for Not-the-Valentine Dress really begins with my return to sewing two years ago …