~thanks Karin!~

August 28, 2010.Reading time 6 minutes.

Surprise! Karin from the lovely sewing blog Ancien-Nouveau has awarded me a Beautiful Blogger award! Thanks so much Karin – I really enjoy reading your blog too! And readers, if you haven’t come across Ancien-Nouveau in blogland yet, you really must check it out – Karin makes lots of lovely and inspirational things! Now there are a […]

~if you faint easily, don’t read this!~

August 17, 2010.Reading time 5 minutes.

With all that hand-stitching on my Chanel-style jacket, I guess this was going to be inevitable: Now I don’t usually like to share images of blood with my readers, but there is a related story and handy-dandy hint that I would like to share! Once upon a time there was a young girl straight out of […]

~chanel jacket slow progress~

August 16, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

All those rows of quilting has caused progress to be quite slow on my Chanel-style jacket – the thread ends need to be unpicked and restitched back into place after the shell seam has been sewn – and there is a lot of thread ends! Next time I will definitely take a more minimal approach […]

~tangerine nightmare skirt~

August 6, 2010.Reading time 1 minute.

I finished the refashioning (can your refashion something when it is only 2 days old?) of my tangerine dream skirt last weekend, but it has been raining all week so haven’t had the chance to photograph it. Today however it was fine enough to venture outdoors: Now that I’ve let it out at the waist […]

~the chanel jacket begins~

August 5, 2010.Reading time 3 minutes.

I began working on my Chanel-style jacket yesterday, here is the illustration and shell fabric: As you can see it is a fairly standard shape, so I simply started from my existing jacket block with a princess line, which is a standard NZ size 10, and I graded it up to my measurements, which are a […]