Wordless Wednesday: dressmaking assistance
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Life as I Know it
Making Monday: Everything Striped
I recently finished Giles’ Cobblestone Jumper (pattern by Jared Flood), and although I haven’t yet got a picture of him wearing it, here is a glimpse of it just after blocking. It was a very easy pattern, with plenty of scope for multi-tasking or watching the telly while making. Giles requested stripy sleeves as his
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Movember
While the chaps are growing their moustaches to raise awareness and help the funding of prostate and testicular cancer research, this Movember I will be mostly wearing this moustache cowl. Although there isn’t an official Movember knitting pattern, I decided to made a donation to The Prostate Cancer Charity, which is particularly close to my
Millennium Fashion Forecasts from the 1930s
In this now highly entertaining video from the 1930s, ‘top US fashion designers’ (unnamed) had been asked to design what they felt the woman of the year 2000 would be wearing. The resulting designs included predicting the end of the skirt, that we might wear floaty trousers with electric belts to regulate temperature, that wedding
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TRIP Conference
Here’s a reminder that there are still places available to attend the TRIP (Textile Research in Progress) conference next month in Loughborough. I would dearly love to attend myself as the conference is very much in my area of interest, but sadly cannot afford to this time around. That’s why you’ve all got to go