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Kwik Sew 2895 – Red Jacket
Time for a bit of colour in my wardrobe with a red denim-style jacket using cotton drill.
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Back Off Shirt with Spoonflower Fabric
This is what I’ve called my husband’s “Back Off Shirt”. It’s the second shirt I’ve made from my first Spoonflower fabric order. It’s another cotton poplin shirt so all of the techniques I used in the previous shirt, the History of the Apple Shirt, could be replicated with this one. Read more…
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History of the Apple Shirt with fabric from Spoonflower
The first fabric to use from my first Spoonflower order was the History of the Apple by 1stPancake in a Cotton Poplin. It has lots of images related to Apple Computers on it – the Macintosh, Macintosh Portable, iMac, iPod, iPhone, iPad. This print was chosen by my husband to Read more…
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My First Time Ordering Fabric from Spoonflower
I’ve wanted to buy custom printed fabric from Spoonflower for a while and when they had a 20% off sale I thought it was a great time to try it out. Happily this coincided with a number of events. My husband had thrown away some worn-out shirts, his birthday was Read more…
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 3: Sewing
This is the third part of my journey creating my Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In the second part I cut out and prepared my fabric for sewing. In this post I’ll Read more…
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 2: Cutting Out
This is the second part of my journey creating a Chanel Jacket. The first part outlined how I gathered all the supplies and created a well fitting toile (ie. test garment in calico). In this post I’ll discuss the cutting out process, which was quite different to any other pattern Read more…
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Blue Chanel Jacket – Part 1: Supplies and Toile
The construction of my Chanel Jacket has been quite a journey. I wrote previously in Why I decided to Make a Chanel Jacket for my reasonings of undertaking such a daunting task. SUMMARY: The Australian Sewing Guild were running a sew-along and I thought a Chanel Jacket would look great Read more…
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Minecraft Creeper Softie
My son is very much into Minecraft, and lately he especially likes the Creeper character. You know the one that comes close to players and explodes. So for his 9th Birthday I decided to make him a softie, as he loves stuffed toys and the ones in the shops were Read more…