Bombazine oven mitt
We are mitt making machines over here at Bombazine. Whether it’s for school fetes, last minute thank-you gifts or reluctant family Kris Kringle production lines, we’ve been known to …
Category: Zebra
Floral hack dress
When it comes to florals, I’m super fussy. Of all prints, flowers are my very favourite, but there are so few florals that pass my ridiculous self-imposed standards that I …
Another Oval Coat (Yuko Takada)
Ages ago, well two posts ago (which is ages, we’ve been a little slow with blogging around here this winter), I promised to post some photos of the toile I …
Yuko Takada studio visit
When we were planning a trip to Japan this year, up on the wish-list along with fabric shopping and gyoza eating was learning more about our favourite pattern books. It’s …
Play with Patterns by Yuko Takada – Oval Coat
This is a saga of a coat. A coat that was never part of my plan. A coat inspired by a meeting with an amazing pattern maker. A coat that …
Deer and Doe Melilot shirt
Lately, I just want to stick a collar on everything I sew. After years of making and wearing nothing but pull-on tops and tee-shirts, all of a sudden if it …