Despite leaving comments on several blogs that I don’t really have a New Year’s resolution, and that I chop and change my mind so much that I would never stick to one anyway, I have discovered three weeks into the new year that I actually do have one: “My New Year’s resolution is to save […]
Read MoreI love seeing all the Ruby Slips popping up on sewing blogs right around the world, and it gives me a real buzz to see what a great job everyone has done! Following are some awesome examples, and you can click on the links to read the story behind each one. Kristen at K.Line made […]
Read MoreI finished this little button-back shell this week: You might recognise the orange spot fabric from this post! It’s in that “new” shade of “Tangerine Tango” that according to Pantone is going to be in fashion next year…but quite frankly I thought it was in fashion last year. Well all the chain stores were full of it […]
Read MoreI bought this top just for the fabric! I’ve been looking for some Breton stripe in red or blue for ages without success, so I snapped this top up for $6 when I saw it at the Red Cross Shop in Sandringham Village, with a view to reworking it at some stage. That was three […]
Read MoreI’m sewing with this charming spot fabric in the fabulous shade of, ahem, Tangerine Tango this week. It is a printed cotton voile from Global Fabrics*, and I thought it was an ideal opportunity to demonstrate another thingamajig. I have levelled the horizontal grain across the piece by cutting along a weft thread, and because […]
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