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Showing off my undies in public

UPDATE: Want to make your own knickers from my pattern? You can now buy the Wonder Unders Pattern (which includes a singlet camisole & slip) through my pattern line: Scroop Patterns. Get it here! I’ve shown a lot of photos of undergarments over the years, and even quite a few photos of me in undergarments – but they have all been historical. So this is a bit different, and kind of weird and hard for me. Because these are my knickers: Or, at least, knickers that are made from the same pattern that I wear, in the same way as the ones I wear. As of this photo/post, these ones haven’t been worn, and may never be – they are just test pairs! Yep. I’ve joined the making your own knickers club. It makes sense – it fits with my whole life and sewing philosophy. I want to wear things that are well made, well fitted, and from quality materials. I’m trying to live and shop within a community: keeping my money and …

The ‘Some Things Are Black & White’ Jacket

Published by The Dreamstress

Back at February’s Fabric-a-Brac I found a length of fantastic heavy black and white basketweave cotton. It immediately said “I would be perfect for a Roll Collar Jacket!” And it would have been, except there wasn’t quite enough of it. It’s the curse of Fabric-a-Brac. You find the most amazing fabrics, as the most amazing prices and they are always 89.7% as long as they need to be for the project you want to make out of them. But the fabric was SO perfect for the jacket, that I fiddled and fiddled and managed to get the jacket out of it by cutting the collar across the grainline (just to see if it would work), lining the collar in a different fabric, and by putting a seam across the upper back – which has actually turned into a pretty cool feature. So I sewed, and then lost motivation, and stuck the jacket in my UFO pile for 5 months, and then fished it out and realised that all it needed was the last bit …

My Ballerina Moment

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Last week I discussed the idea of how every girl should have a ballerina moment, and shared my inspiration for a ballerina inspired dress, using my grandmother’s fabric and pattern. I have definitely had my ballerina moment now, and it was worth every bit of angst and mad sewing and panicked moment of ‘Oh no! I’ve ruined my fabric!’. As it turned out, my ballerina moment wasn’t, as I had planned, the Windy Lindy ‘Enchantment Under the Sea’ ball. The dress was done, and I wore it, but the ball was a bit of a wash-out for me: the music was too loud, the dance floor too crowded, the theme didn’t quite come together, and I wasn’t feeling well the whole weekend. So I had to wait another week to be a ballerina, but it came together perfectly: I spent the night in Palmerston North with the fabulous Juliet of The Crazy Gypsy Chronicles, and we had a girl’s night and ate Korean and had too much chocolate silk cake and stayed up too late …