I’m celebrating Tilly‘s Coco Party today with a stripy Breton-inspired Coco top paired with my midi and maxi Miette skirts. Until yesterday evening, I hadn’t done any sewing this week, so Coco was the perfect quick basic pattern to get me back into the swing of things. I sewed the whole thing up apart from […]
Perfect Pattern Parcel #1 and Dixie DIY Summer Concert Tee
Carnival must have worked its winter-banishing magic because cold weather seems far behind us now and the sunny spell has me itching to get cracking on my 2014 summer wardrobe. As luck would have it, just as I’d begun excitedly daydreaming about patterns and fabrics, lovelies Jill (Made with Moxie) and Rachael (Imagine Gnats) approached me to […]
Fancy Dress Costumes – Part Two – ‘Yes little Cinderella, you shall go to the ball!’
Fairy/princess type bits and pieces for my children! This is the second installment of my Carnival makes for my children although this costume isn’t so much of an outfit, more a collection of accessories that can be worn together or played with separately. The main piece is this tulle skirt. I used the tutu pattern […]
Fancy Dress Costumes – Part One
I wanted to share a couple of costumes with you that I made for my children to wear for Carnival season. Firstly because I’m happy with how they turned out, but mainly because they were just so easy to make! It was my first time to make anything like this but the good news is, […]
‘Helau, Alaaf!!’, It’s Carnival!!
If Project Sewn or the new season of The Great British Sewing Bee haven’t whet your sewing appetite yet, then I offer you something a little different to get your creative juices flowing! Check out all this hand-made goodness! Mayhem has descended on the little southern German town where I live! Carnival street parade You […]