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2nd attempt at using my dressform
I had a great weekend. Ant was home(although in work teaching students on Saturday) and the weather was great. On Sunday we went to a fantastic pot luck BBQ. I’m not sure if it was the good mood I...
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dress for Carys, Butterick 596
I made another dress for my young friend Carys. Her mother had some old PJs she loved but had out grown and wanted to reuse the material, so gave it to me to turn into a dress. The pattern is …...
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cushions for The Pentagon
Today I finally got around to making cushions for the benches in the pentagon. From freecycle I had acquired two bits of foam in the form of a yoga mat and a change table mat. Luckily both pieces of...
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Cowley Road Carnival
A few weeks back I went to the Oxford Pride Parade and was very disappointed (you can read about it here.) I still think Oxford could learn from really any small town in the US about how to throw a …...
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Cowley Carnival continued
The rest of the pics from the Cowley Carnival, including the awesome slide.
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girls’ semi-princess dress, Butterick 2194, 1962
My niece Niamh turned three, now over 3 weeks ago. I was late with my present, but she now has it so I can post some pics. There isn’t too much to say about it. I used Butterick pattern 2194 …...
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misses’ one-piece dress, Simplicity Designer Fashion 6633, 1966
After a third attempt using the dressform I got a bit frustrated with a big failure, and decided to make something using a pattern. I chose Simplicity 6633 from 1966. It’s very simple and cute. The...
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shirt dress
I think he would disagree, but it seems Antony has a cycle of buying a shirt, wearing it for a while, and then deciding he doesn’t like it for a number of possible reasons. He rarely wears a shirt to...
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dress, New Look 6725
I’m still not quite ready to attempt another dress using my dressform and so I tried out another pattern. I used New Look 6725 which I think is probably from the mid-nineties, but I can’t find any...
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The Birthday Cake
Birthday cakes when you are young are very important and leave lasting impressions. Antony’s most memorable cake was an elaborate train cake from the Women’s Weekly Cookbook for his 6th birthday....
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