Republique du Chiffon Danielle Dungarees
I’m going to start the year (…okay it’s late Feb, who can keep track?) with a bold declaration, and it’s this: Everyone should own a pair of dungarees. All of …
Category: Zebra
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 …
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 …