This is my latest experiment – a circle skirt with an elasticated waistband. For those of you who read my elasticated a-line skirt tutorial, this one is made in exactly the same way. Instead of being triangular, the pattern piece is a quarter circle, which you then cut on a double fold in the fabric.
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Archive for April, 2008
Koi circle skirt…
Posted in skirts, tagged skirts on April 29, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
More slippers…
Posted in shoes, tagged shoes, slippers on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The monkey slippers are finished!
I added some felt soles, with a decorative blanket stitch to neatly finish off the edges. I hadn’t worked blanket stitch for approximately 28 years, but it was lovely to have a look through my Great Aunt’s sewing book from 1940, for a little refresher course. :)
I love these monkey [...]
Tired and Inspired.
Posted in inspiration, tagged inspiration on April 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Insomnia is not my friend. Half past six on a Sunday morning is a terrible thing to see, especially if you’ve already been up for two hours. I plan to snooze in the bath later this morning.
Thankfully the internet is a twenty-four hour operation, and instead of wasting half the night on Cute Overload or [...]
Everybody needs monkey slippers!
Posted in shoes, tagged shoes, slippers on April 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Today I have been mostly making monkey slippers!
I promised to make a pair of slippers for a friend, so I thought I’d better make a prototype for myself first, to figure a few things out. I had just enough monkey fabric left from my Superbuzzy order, so I couldn’t resist using it up.
I have plans [...]
Recycled pinstriped skirt…
Posted in skirts, tagged skirts on April 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I had been planning to make some slippers today, but I realised that I was missing a vital ingredient – the soles! I’ll work on those another time.
Instead, I fished out two pairs of my fiancé’s trousers, which had been in a box destined for the charity shop. They were made from a really nice [...]
Paddington shopping bag…
Posted in bags, tagged bags on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
This is what I’ve been up to today – as well as finishing ’s dress, I’ve made a Paddington shopping bag at the request of .
It’s a big bag, quite a lot bigger than the totes that I’ve made previously. It’s roughly A3 in size, and the handles are short ones. They won’t go over [...]
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