You can buy patterns for full circle skirts. Or you can design your own, because that is really not hard. I'm not sure exactly when I wrote these instructions, but I found them the other day and they're worth posting here. How to design a circular
Whew. It fits! There is a reason it looks a bit rumpled. I didn't have time to wash it before the rehearsal (it needs washing to get rid of the remaining traces of blue dressmaker's chalk), so our Alice will need to wash it next time
On Monday I took a deep breath and plunged into Etsy. It was a slow business. I'm quite impressed with myself that I still managed to make five pairs of earrings that day. To be fair, that wasn't entirely Etsy's fault, although there is
Let's talk a little bit about the economics of making bead earrings. It does vary a bit, but generally it takes me a little over an hour to make one pair, from when I start to choose the colours up to the point where I drop it into
Butterick 5509 is a bit of an undertaking. Although, despite that, I'd be quite tempted to make one for myself... if it came in my size. It is listed as "all sizes in one envelope", but that is for certain values of "all". It&
As I mentioned last time, I needed to design at least two more styles (ideally more, but certainly two to be going on with); and I ended up doing that on Monday. You see, I was also cutting out Alice's pinafore, but, as I've said before,
Well, actually she doesn't. I do. Metaphorically, of course, my physical springing days being a long way behind me now; but this week I shall mostly be working on Alice's pinafore and petticoat. Not, thankfully, the dress. The budget for the drama group took ages to
When I was in my early twenties, someone rather ill-advisedly referred to me in my hearing as "a little fluffy thing". At which I grinned, and said, "OK. I'm a little fluffy thing. But I'm a little fluffy thing with teeth!" Someone
I was quite convinced that almost all record of my original attempt at The Embroidered Waistcoat had, like the waistcoat itself, vanished without trace in 2016. But the other day I was trying to find something in my documents folder; and, several subfolders down, there it was. An entire folder
Things happened on Friday. For a start, I made this pair of earrings; they're exactly the same design as the white ones I posted the other day. I thought they'd photograph better than the white ones (which, to be honest, weren't bad, but these
The other day, since it wasn't my food bank week and there weren't any further gas engineers or other tradespeople, I decided to have a go at those earrings I described in my previous post, the ones based on powers of 2. (The idea, at its
I have bugle beads now. I bought them for the star earrings; but the star earrings use only 24 of them per pair, and there are hundreds of them in a pack (really they're just like seed beads, but stretched out to 3 mm long). And if you&