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Completed: Starry Mini Skirt
Remember the Starry Nights Dress? It didn’t survive my creative clutches. A few months back it got the chop and the bottom half went into my scrap pile, side seams in tact. The top is in my regular...
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Completed: Trashy Lampshade Pencil Skirt
Let the filters on my photos take you back to a time when fringing was all the rage! Years ago I bought a bag of ribbon and trimming scraps from a fabric department store. In it was a 1.2m length of...
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Completed: Jersey Hippy Swing Skirt
Yay! Modern Hippie Happiness. In all honesty I don’t like this fabric. I got 2.5m of it from an opshop one day as I thought it would be good practice sewing with knits. I thought of making a wrap dress...
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Completed: Dreams Come True Pencil Skirt
Here we are, the last item from my day in the sun camera in hand. We are now officially up to date with sewing projects. This is another opshop-found fabric, but this one was long enough to make the...
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #01: Bat
Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had happy holidays and settling into another year quite well. I am. This year I have only one ambition and that is to Be Relaxed. Whatever else that I happen to get...
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #03: Grey Nomad
Another wool from an opshop, but not stretchy this time. It kept moving about as a cut and sewed it. Vintage button thanks to me Nan.
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #05: Cause for Trouble
I knew when I made this into a pencil skirt it would have to be named with a reference to hot librarian teachers who don’t take silliness from students.
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #07: Clyde
Clyde Pencil Skirt. So named after the photo filter effect on my photo editing app on my phone.
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #08: Nick Swing
Here’s one of my favourites! However I’m not sure if I’ll ever wear it… This one gets its name from the swingin sixties design of the fabric combined with the putrid smell of cigarette smoke...
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #01: Bat
Happy New Year! I hope you’ve all had happy holidays and settling into another year quite well. I am. This year I have only one ambition and that is to Be Relaxed. Whatever else that I happen to get...
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Mug Shots of Pencil Skirts #03: Grey Nomad
Another wool from an opshop, but not stretchy this time. It kept moving about as a cut and sewed it. Vintage button thanks to me Nan.
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