Going full circle

I have two loves that seemed incompatible until recently: circle skirts and midi skirts. Well, in theory they shouldn’t be, but I had never dared exploring the fabric consumption required by making a circle skirt midi length. I have now, so let me introduce you to my Fabric Gobbler Midi Circle Skirt (how more complicated […]

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I’ve done it again! Another M7081 dress… in silk

I warned you a few months ago, McCalls’s M7081 has become one of me favourite ever patterns. And as I have turned into a complete fabric snob, I only sew silk now (only kidding – well…). So let me introduce you to my newest dress, a silk version of M7081. M7981 pattern review: one of […]

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Sewing silk: my “nearly Dior” dress

Do you have fabric stored in your stash, that you adore but is far too precious to touch? That’s exactly how I felt about this one: a silk-wool mix, with a modernised jungle toile de Jouy pattern, directly from Dior’s resort collection of a few years ago. Very expensive, very delicate… and very scary to […]

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Three Elegante skirts for the winter

My ever-growing collection of hand-knitted cardigans has been calling for matching skirts since the beginning of the winter. What better excuse to make a few Elegante skirts, a pattern by Popeline Linon I had been eying for a while. So here is version 1, in an embroidered denim fabric from Selvedge and Bolts: … version […]

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