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Making Birgitta Helmersson’s Pleat Pants
Some easy weekend sewing has been had, making Birgitta’s pleat pants from the Sewing Without Scraps book. These are culottes-style pants, with an elastic waist, side pockets and a cropped length. The fabric is a bit special. It’s some superfine premium merino wool suiting which is quite fluid and has a subtle charcoal stripe. It…
Read MoreThe Scout Pants and my sewing blunders
On the weekend, I finished sewing Danielle Elsener’s Scout Pants from Sewing Without Scraps. I cut these out last week. The instructions are in Japanese, so I ran them through a translator, skim-read them, then went my own way. I’ve made plenty of trousers in the past and I’m fairly stuck in my favourite ways…
Read MoreMaking Danielle Elsener’s ZW Scout Pants (part 1)
The Scout Pants by Danielle Elsener of DECODE are in the new Sewing Without Scraps book, and I’ve been planning to make them since the book came out. There are two versions of these pants: elastic waist and fly front/regular waistband. I’m doing the fly front version, in denim. The trousers have two back pockets,…
Read MoreFinishing Birgitta Helmersson’s Panel Dress
The Panel Dress from Sewing Without Scraps is finished, and what an enjoyable make it was. I began sewing this dress last week, had done all the fiddly bits, and just had the main sections (sleeve, bodice, skirt) to put together and hem. The skirt is much fuller than the original (3m instead of 2.2m),…
Read MoreMaking Birgitta Helmersson’s Panel Dress
Sewing Without Scraps is out in the world, and plans are afoot to sew some of the things in the book by the other two designers, Birgitta Helmersson and Danielle Elsener. This week I started making the Panel Dress by Birgitta. It’s essentially the top featured on the front cover, with the addition of a…
Read MoreNew Book: Sewing Without Scraps
A new zero waste pattern book has just been unleashed on the world! And I have the honour of being one of the authors. Sewing Without Scraps has new zero waste patterns by Birgitta Helmersson, Danielle Elsener of DECODE and me. The fourth author is Sae Hagino of Mirai Pattern in Japan. The book is…
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