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…
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…
Crafty Poulette 