I put the still unfinished jacket it with it and I'm much happier with this look. Sorry about the crappy pictures, but I took Vera outside in the sun and before I could take the pictures, the clouds came over and a big gust of wind blew. It's been shifting between wind, rain and hot sun all day. Now I'm off to make the green blouse I had intended to make ...
Sunday, March 29, 2009
I changed my mind about the skirt ...
I put the still unfinished jacket it with it and I'm much happier with this look. Sorry about the crappy pictures, but I took Vera outside in the sun and before I could take the pictures, the clouds came over and a big gust of wind blew. It's been shifting between wind, rain and hot sun all day. Now I'm off to make the green blouse I had intended to make ...
Saturday, March 28, 2009
From the vault ...
Here is the cuff (complete with chalk marks) with the cute little teardrop buttons that came from a mixed bag of red and orange buttons I bought at All Buttons Great and Small in Newtown. If you live in Sydney and haven't visited them, I urge you to make the trip. I only get back to Sydney once or twice a year now, but this place is one of my first stops. I'm amazed at how many times over the years I have bought buttons because I love them, then months or even years later I find they are the perfect button for whatever I've just made.
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Clearly I am stupid ...
Would go with this fabric?
The spring tweed for my SWAP contains almost every colour you can imagine ... except lavender.
Whilst I like the blouse, BWOF 1-2008-107 (which I've made several times now) and I quite like the colour, I have no idea how I thought it matched anything. Especially given that I carry a swatch of spring tweed with me everywhere. My wardrobe has another addition, but my SWAP still needs two tops ...
Monday, March 9, 2009
Not much achieved this weekend ...
Next up was the Coffee Date Dress from Burdastyle. I made this from a piece of quilting cotton I bought on sale somewhere. It's been hanging around in my sewing room and finally suggested that it would like to be this dress. It's hard to tell from this picture, but it is brown, white and orange flowers. On it's own it's a little ... old fashioned ... but funked up with this orange belt it looks better.
If I wear these orange shoes with it, I think it will look even better.
Here's a closer view of the ruffle on the front.
This is not part of the SWAP, but I have found that a new theme is emerging ... Chocolate Orange. I've cut out an orange dress, I've made an orange skirt and a brown top, so now I'm looking to tie them all together for the upcoming autumn season, such that it is in the subtropics!
I just need to figure out two more tops, make a skirt and a pair of pants and finish the wretched jacket and my SWAP will be done!!!! I just need to stop adding other projects to my list for a while ...
Thursday, March 5, 2009
And you were worried about Mrs Obama's bare arms ...

This is Lady Sonia McMahon, wife of then Australian Prime Minister, Bill McMahon on a visit to thw Whitehouse in 1971.
Sunday, March 1, 2009
Denim ...
It was hard to get a decent shot of these on the bed and I don't have a pants mannequin. It's about nine hundred degrees here today and way too hot to put these pants on for a photo. In fact, I haven't even hemmed them because I was too sweaty to ease my way into a pair of skinny jeans!
I used the same denim for both. It's a very stretchy fabric from Fabric Frenzy at Nerang that I bought for $15 a metre. It's a lovely quality and a much darker shade of indigo than these pictures suggest. Next time, however, I think I would use denim with less stretch. The topstitching is a quilting thread, but I've forgotten the brand. The colourway is Citrus and I really love it.
This has been a weekend of firsts; first time sewing denim, first time sewing jeans and first time using a twin needle for topstitching on anything other than stretch.
The sun is over the yard arm but it's still stinking hot, so I'm off to have a cold beer and cut out a pink top ...