Home made shift dress In the picture is another version of my favourite shift dress. Recognise a similar necklace? A few posts back I showed it in black with one of the slip tops I made. The bits come from a craft shop and you clip them together. And recognise the...
Making a shift dress pattern Here is the shift dress. There are only two pieces to the pattern, the dress part and the neck facing. No zips or buttons to worry about. It is dead easy to make. I made this particular one a bit longer. All you do is cut the dress...
How I made a shift dress pattern In the picture is a shift dress I bought at H and M a while back. Finding a pattern to make this dress proved impossible. So in the end, much like the slip top in earlier posts, I decided to cut a pattern from this dress. It’s...
Vintage shopping Am not going to show how to make anything today. In the picture is one of the vintage shops we have here in South Africa. If you look at the clothes and fabrics in this picture, the colours and designs are so vibrant and utterly gorgeous. That alone...
Cushion cover tutorial So today’s item is not one you can wear. It’s a scatter cushion cover. I used different coloured fabrics for the back and front to use up perfectly good left-over fabric. If it’s a standard scatter cushion, the dimensions are...
