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 …
Notes from Japan
As we may have mentioned, oh, a couple of times, we sneaked off to Japan recently – just us. No kids. No significant others. No responsibilities. Just two old friends, …
In the Folds Sweater Dress hack
Did you do Me Made May this year? We gave it a go, starting out reasonably strong with our awkward selfie skills, peaking on our little trip to Japan, then …
True Bias Ogden Cami dress
Since I’ve had kids, half-finished craft projects scattered around the house is our kind of normal. A friend’s daughter once said we were a “stickie and glue’ kinda house. It …