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The belle of the ball

The Reader has recently finished her secondary schooling. For many schools in Australia, it is customary to celebrate this achievement with a “formal”. This is usually a formal dinner/dance probably much like a prom in America. At some schools, parents also attend, but at my daughter’s school and the one I attended, it is […]

November 17th, 2017 | Category: colour, dressmaking, making stuff, pattern drafting | 19 comments

hoops, scissors and peacock feathers

I had a couple of deliveries this week. It’s always fun to get parcels!

The Dovo Hardanger scissors (which I sold the last of at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair) are now back in stock.

And finally, I again have all sizes of the Klass and Gessmann wooden hoops with stands back […]

July 13th, 2017 | Category: designing, dressmaking, favourite needlework items, hardanger, making stuff, pattern drafting, White Threads Blog | 2 comments

Mystified by McCalls

As you may remember, The Reader and I did a pattern drafting course over a couple of years. Recently, we visited Cabramatta in Sydney, where there are a good number of fabric shops. We each purchased some fabric for a dress from Sogo Fabric (in my opinion, Sogo always has the best fabric in […]

February 15th, 2016 | Category: dressmaking, making stuff, pattern drafting | 11 comments

Profile and review on Into Craft blog

Into Craft blog featured a profile of me and my new book “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery” last week. You can read it here. At the time of writing this, there was also a very lovely comment at the bottom of the article, from a happy customer. (I’m not expecting that her comment will disappear, rather […]

August 25th, 2014 | Category: book reviews, embroidery musings, making stuff, pattern drafting, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery, whitework, writing books | 5 comments

Florence Broadhurst dress

You may have noticed the dress I was wearing in the photograph that I posted yesterday. At least one person did, because I received an email saying, “You should mention the lovely dress you are wearing in photo.” This suited me fine, because I was planning on talking about Florence Broadhurst today!

The […]

August 9th, 2014 | Category: Inspirations, magazines, making stuff, pattern drafting | Leave a comment

Red and gold evening jacket part 3

I’ve hit a conundrum with my jacket. I think I’ve decided how I want the fastenings to look (mostly). But I’ve still got to figure out how to make it work.

I’m thinking of a group of three rouleau loops and self-cover buttons at the top of the lap, repeated at the waist. (Yes, […]

November 21st, 2013 | Category: designing, dressmaking, making stuff, pattern drafting | 5 comments

Red and gold evening jacket part 2

I’ve done heaps on my jacket over the weekend, and I have put heaps of thought into the fastening quandry.

First I put the front and back bodice pieces together and the front and back neck facings. I was very happy with the way the fabric patterning matched up across the panels. Using safety […]

November 18th, 2013 | Category: designing, dressmaking, making stuff, pattern drafting | Leave a comment

Red and gold evening jacket

For the CIAM patternmaking course that I have been taking over the last year, one of the requirements is to make a fully lined jacket, drafted from your own pattern (of course!) A few weeks ago I finally came up with a sketch of what I wanted to make, having been mulling it over […]

November 15th, 2013 | Category: designing, dressmaking, hints and tips, making stuff, pattern drafting | 11 comments

inspiration and progress

Yesterday I spent much of my day designing tiny little pretty embroideries. They will be quick to do and make fantastic gifts.

The embroideries took on a life of their own and also formed themselves into something unexpected. Just like the motifs in “Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães” which as an after-thought […]

November 6th, 2013 | Category: making stuff, pattern drafting, whitework, writing books | 4 comments

bodice patterns drafted

The Reader and I started our CIAM pattern making course on the weekend. We drafted front and back bodices, according to our measurements. In the two weeks before the next class we have to use one of the patterns we drafted (we drafted more than one, because there are different dart placements possible, especially […]

August 20th, 2012 | Category: dressmaking, making stuff, pattern drafting | 2 comments
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