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Japan: inspiration overload
Apologies for the blog silence around here lately, but I've just come back from an amazing few weeks in Japan so actually I'm not really sorry at all! It's my ten year wedding anniversary and my...
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September Burda of the Month: 9/2015 #122 the Referee Top
My latest Burda of the month project is slightly late, but I'm excusing myself since I had a good excuse what with being out of the country. And since my October issue still hasn't arrived, technically...
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Vintage Vogue skirt - rescue for a boring wardrobe
I don't know why it is, but with the beginning of each new season I feel like I have nothing to wear (which judging by my bulging wardrobe is obviously not true). Now that the weather has warmed up...
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Our first family Halloween.....
Being relatively new to the world of celebrating Halloween, when it came to all us of needing a dress up costume this year for a party we were invited to I went down a tried and tested path and picked...
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Vogue 9625: simple sundress in gorgeous Swedish fabric
A few weeks ago I received an email from Julia who runs Yulki's Home Decor asking if she could give me some beautiful Scandinavian fabric to use in any way I choose in return for mentioning her on-line...
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Burda 7286: from UFO to wearable white jacket
Ahhh, UFOs. As hard as I have tried in the last few years not to create any new ones, the sad reality is that sometimes I get frustrated by a project and then distracted by a new project. I started...
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October Burda of the month: 10/2015 #110 cowl neck top
I'm running a little behind on my Burda of the month project, but better late than never. The last few issues of the Burda magazine have been great and I've found it hard to pick a project because of...
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Review: Two Blue Birdies Stash Box
I was recently invited by Two Blue Birdies, a Melbourne based fabric and haberdashery online store to try out their Stash Box. I was very happy to discover their haberdashery range - they sell Aurifil...
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Burda 3/2013 #110 - the Bird of Paradise Dress
I've always been rather jealous of those bloggers who can think up witty titles for their posts or give their latest project a cute/twee/funny/appropriate name. Sadly I lack that skill, and my posts...
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End of year sewing
Hi everyone, hope you've all had a relaxing holiday period. I'm happily still on holidays from work, and for the first time in many many years we have stayed home  this year instead of leaving at the...
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Burda projects of the month: 11/2015 #108 (fail!) and 12/2015 #121 (winner!)
Apologies for the blog silence - we've been away on a holiday and then had house guests which left me little time to sew or blog. I managed to finish my December Burda project just after Christmas day...
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Vintage pattern giveaway and request for iron recommendations
There I go again with the most literal and most boring blog post title ever!Before I get into that I must apologise for being a bad blogger - I haven't gotten around to responding to comments I...
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Burda of the month: 1/2016 #120 bright yellow jacket
Thank you to everyone who has left a comment on the last post - I really appreciate all the good advice. Who would have thought that we'd have so much to say about irons?!I've got my Burda challenge...
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And the winner is.....
Check out the evil stare that the illustrated lady is giving the real life lady on that pattern envelope! Nothing to do with anything, but I thought it was quite funny and worth sharing.So the winner...
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Third time lucky: Vogue 2783 panelled dress
After having Vogue 2783 in my pattern collection for many years unused, I've now made this pattern three times in last few years. I don't know why I left it so long before I used it in the first place,...
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Burda of the month: 2/2016 #118 raglan sleeve top
Today's post is brought to you by heat wave conditions here in Sydney, a winter-ish issue of Burda and scratchy polyester fabric - in other words I have suffered for the sake of this post. However it...
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Vintage wing tipped dress in red: Butterick 6473
At the start of spring last year I pulled out a few fabrics that had been sitting in the stash for a while that I really wanted to use and left them on my cutting table, in the hopes that looking at...
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Bright green for attention!
A few of my work colleagues know that I sew my own clothes, so I often get comments from them like: "did you make that? Looks great". But it's not often that random strangers ever ask or compliment me...
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Burda of the month: 3/2016 #125 retro dress
I am absolutely killing my Burda challenge this year - three projects made from the magazines in the month of their issue and I like them all (so far, I could be tempting fate by typing this though!)....
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Castaway to Couture - my grey skirt makeover
The Australian Sewing Guild is once again running a competition called 'Castaway to Couture' which requires entrants to refashion an existing garment into something new. The first prize is a Brother...
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