Patternmaking
My Father’s shirt
During my 1970’s childhood, my Dad had a body shirt in an orangey/yellowy/ browny floral Liberty print. It was originally a special shirt but became a gardening shirt at the end of its life. It had worn out by the time I was a teenager, and Mum gave it to me and I unpicked it. …
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As curling columns of smoke and the buzz of chainsaws announce the settling of autumn in our part of the world, I sat outside and sewed a skirt to go with last week’s Japanese cardigan. It’s my own basic A-line skirt I’ve used several times before. It has a waist facing, centre back invisible zip,…
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