Posts Tagged ‘Danielle Elsener’
The Scout Shirt by Danielle Elsener
The Scout shirt is a new zero waste pattern in Sewing Without Scraps. Last week I cut out a long sleeved version and over the weekend sewed it up. The pattern pieces are cut in a zero waste arrangement, and apart from the front/back/yoke, the pieces are in a modular arrangement that can be moved…
Read MoreMaking Danielle Elsener’s Scout Shirt
The Scout Shirt is a pattern in the new book Sewing Without Scraps. Just a shameless plug: Aussies, 50 more copies of the book arrived last week and are in my shop now. US readers, Danielle has just received more copies too. Neither of us have more on order, so please take this opportunity to…
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 MoreMaking a Zero Waste Camera Lens Case
One day, Mr H came home from the second hand shop with a camera lens that fitted our teen’s camera. She uses the lens but it still lives in the shopping bag from the shop. I was thinking about this when I saw Danielle Elsener’s Zero Waste Travel Case, and I thought it could be…
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