Wheeee! One finished Buttercup bag from Made by Rae. It took me awhile – I cut the fabric out ages ago and then failed to do anything with it/succumbed to the Sewing machine Fear – but I decided that I needed to sew it up, so I’ve been working on it slowly over the last [...]
Category Archives: Sewing
Kindle Frankencover
February 1, 2011 – 12:54 pm
Well, don’t get used to this much updating but I’m back, with another post! Yesterday I bought a Kindle, which wasn’t strictly planned but serendipity has its own ways and means and had settled this for me last week. So it wasn’t like I didn’t know it was going to happen and could thus make [...]
Steampunked New Year
January 3, 2010 – 1:14 pm
I started 2010 with a bang. That’s the costume I made for the New Year’s party I attended. And when I say made, I mean, I sewed that skirt! Oh yes! The week before Christmas saw me back with my family, hunched over my mom’s elderly sewing machine making the occasional squawky noise and being [...]
[Meg] Buttons and pins
September 6, 2009 – 8:05 pm
I went for a wander today, down to the V&A, which is my favourite of the London museums and I’m very lucky to live close to it. I was mostly hunting for presents for a couple upcoming birthdays because the V&A store has so many lovely and unusual things in it. I managed to find [...]
Blast from the craft past
July 23, 2006 – 11:36 pm
I’m about to dash down to London again, this time for flathunting (aieeee!) and and Jam is currently bound for Sweden for a week, so there will be silence here for a wee bit. But I leave you with something I found while sorting boxes: a blast from my crafty past. Carefully sewn together – [...]
Works in Progress
June 25, 2006 – 4:29 pm
Yesterday saw me rooting around in the depths of Boyes for fabric. I managed to avoid the bead section in the process because contrary to popular opinion, I do possess an ounce of willpower. …besides, I cannibalised two old necklaces found while doing a massive ‘sort and throw’ on three years worth of pre-university junk. [...]