Stories & Crafts
Yes, you’ve got it right, I am not going to wear my fancy red silk dress to lounge around eating chocolate and binge watch series on Christmas-lockdown-day! So I decided to make myself something nice and comfy for this train-wreak of a holiday season. In case you haven’t been following this is my New Year’s…
Sooo I didn’t quite keep the challenge for this week. For those that haven't followed I am doing a New Year countdown sewing challenge (only I counted the weeks wrong, lol) : Du fil à retordre sewing challenge. This past week I have been super busy and I spent the weekend mostly Xmas shopping. I…
Nothing better than flipping a Dracula-made-a-baby-with-a-circus-master dress into an overly fancy 50s vibe dress, to get over the fact that Christmas and New Year’s eve seem to have been cancelled this year. I brought this dress nearly two years ago when I discovered ChineMachine, if you ever manage to travel again and get to Montmartre,…
Back to basics! This week I decided to challenge myself to make a t-shirt. The challenge was more mental than technical since the last time I tackled this lavender colour thin jersey, was a disaster. This summer I had decided to make a play-suit from a tutorial… it didn’t work at all. It was a…
Big change, this week I decided to try another pattern book! I thought I could handle it easily but as a beginner, I really missed the pictures from Tilly and the Button’s patterns explanations. They are so much clearer! Don’t get me wrong, Vestiaire Scandinave does a big effort with drawings and instructions (much more…
This was one fiddly project! I decided to push my limits a bit with this one, it is by far the most complex thing I have ever made! The pattern is a Tilly and the Buttons ‘Mimi’ shirt from the book ‘Love at first stitch’ (French version, I imagine the pattern names are different in…
I brought a pair of skirt dungarees this summer and I still haven’t taken them off (to be fair I did wash them a couple of times), but they are sooo comfy! You can wear them with thick tights, woolly and boots in the winter or with just a tank top in the summer. So…
Seven weeks to 2021 - Seven sewing projects! We are back in lock-down in Paris and I decided to finally get it together and seriously learn how to make my own clothes... and how better to keep motivation than setting oneself unrealistic challenges and spending the afternoon creating a new logo?? Three years ago when…
Crafty Poulette 