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WSBN Burda Sew Along – maroon corduroy pants
Details Pattern: Burda Magazine, October 2012, number 139 Fabric: 2.5m Cut: Early May Sewn: Early – 18th May, and then reworked a week later. . . Alterations made: Took in side & inseams by about...
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Yet another curtain (keeping out the winter cold)
As I mentioned in my previous post about curtains, I am a big fan of them for their insulating properties. Both our front and back doors are mostly glass and a bit drafty, so I want to put curtains...
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Pocket Nappy
I’ve been struggling for sewing time recently. I felt really productive in the first part of the year, but since May my two littlies have stopped napping at the same time. In June, I started providing...
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Family in the hood
It’s school holidays and my Mum, my sister and her family came to stay with us last weekend and for Monday & Tuesday. So we had four energetic little boys in the house and we were stuck inside most...
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Let us sew cake, let us eat cake!
WSBN (Wellington Sewing Bloggers Network) did a cake sew-along for the month of July. Cake patterns that is. And then we all got together for high tea to eat cake while wearing our cake patterns. The...
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Sewing room upgrade
Earlier last year, while sewing curtains in fact, I had a wee brain wave about my sewing space. Since we moved into our new house (2 years ago!) I have had my very own sewing room. Previous to this I...
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Muse: Jenna Cardi
My lovely and talented friend Kat has just launched the first pattern of Muse Patterns, the Jenna Cardi. Over the last couple of years I have occasionally eyed up various knits and considered making my...
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The Great WSBN Sewing Room Tour
Welcome, welcome come on in, you are up to about the 20th stop on our tour. Can I get you a cup of tea? No? Oh well, maybe next time. If you have jumped in at the middle you can start the tour here at...
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Tipi Sewing! (& canvas flat felled seam)
One of my projects this year has been to sew a tipi. No, not a play one, a big one for our family to camp in. I initially bought 10m of canvas for $1 per metre at the Fabric Warehouse pop-up shop in...
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Camping in a home made Tipi
This post follows on from my previous post Tipi Sewing. We spent almost three weeks over the Xmas holiday period camping in our Tipi. It was pretty much everything I hoped it would be – light, airy,...
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