…of my discerning and fashionable Father’s WOOL-WEARING this WOVEMBER.
ETA: it is much harder to blog from the phone than I thought, so itinerant broadcasting creativity will have to be confined to audioboo and posterous for now. Still, I decided to add in the photos and sort out this post from the easy interface of my laptop… much simpler all round and still contains […]
I am sorry to bore you all to death with yet another one of these bags. However I cannot stop myself from making this pattern; everytime I turn out those cute pockets I begin visualising yet another lining/outer fabric combo and when I surveyed the moth-eaten pile of ebay-won Harris Tweed left over from the […]
So as planned, Emmylou came around last night and helped me with the hem on the top I began making last weekend. She encouraged me to finish off the tweed with a bias-binding edging and to leave the inner lining floating free, rather than in any way attaching it to the outer layer of tweed […]
I have been trying to sew a top over the past few days and it has been most instructive in terms of patience. For a very long time I have had a large length of deep fuscia pink tweed, given to me by my Godmother when she realised she would never get a suit out […]