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Tea Cosy
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Wednesday 16 July, 2014. Monday 15 February, 2016. Tea cosies are an essential part of making proper English tea. And I’m only saying this with my tongue slightly in my cheek. If you’re making it in a pot (which you should be,) then it will need something to keep it snuggly while it brews. There is nothing worse than pouring a cup of tea and finding that it has just dipped below the optimum drinking temperature. Which I followed to a tea (haha) except that I only made one pompom (I’m impatient.). Fill in...
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Magpie Makery: Floral Summer Zsalya
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Tuesday, June 30, 2015. I just made my third version of the Zsalya pattern from Kate and Rose. I think this is a repeat record for me - making 3 versions of any pattern - and each of them is quite different. I started with a little black dress. Then made a long-sleeved flannel winter version. And now have come up with a light cotton summer version. Looking a little washed out. and anxious to escape mosquitoes! Left: the yoke from the inside: clean finish on this version, the Q&D on the purple version.
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Magpie Makery: September 2014
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014. Since my big sewing blowout in July, I haven't been doing a lot of actual sewing. I've bought fabric, and cut lots of patterns out in preparation, I've been taking some online classes, I've even bought and prepped some new patterns. But the sitting down and sewing hasn't been happening enough. This time of year, though, is a really busy time for my other passion - books. First off, there is a new release, a book of essays called Women in Clothes. I've also just picked up a co...
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Magpie Makery: March 2015
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Saturday, March 28, 2015. Floral Frenzy: a Spring McCalls 7080. I felt like tackling an easy dress for my first in a long line of dress patterns that I am dying to get sewn up by summer this year. I just bought the new McCalls 7080. Attracted by the cute waist feature. This dress is a pullover, easy to make and easy to wear, what with the gathered skirt. My only concern was that it might be too girlish for me. But what the heck, I made it anyhow. And look at that pattern match on the patch pockets. I lov...
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Magpie Makery: KwikSew Paisley Tunic
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Thursday, July 2, 2015. I recently thrifted a lovely piece of fine cotton-like fabric from my local Salvation Army store - I couldn't resist the fun print! It is very lightweight but full of colour in its blue and yellow and coral paisleys. I considered for a while, trying to decide which pattern it would suit. I really wanted a tunic in this print. In our lovely Confederation Park. I chose KwikSew 3601. Because I thought the fabric would work well with its straight lines. I also have McCalls 7128. July ...
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Magpie Makery: August 2015
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Monday, August 31, 2015. Kwik Sew Two-for-One: Bookish Inspirations. My "Book Dress" - you can vote for me at. Patternreview from Sept 3 - 9. PatternReview has a regular series of monthly contests; this month's was the "Inspired By A Book". Contest. As a librarian, how could I NOT enter this one? In which a woman refuses to abandon her books when the Firemen come to burn her house down - she'd rather not live without them. As Montag (our hero) encounters her:. Come on, woman! From last summer's sewing.
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Magpie Makery: October 2014
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Friday, October 24, 2014. October's "Fire Opal" Dress. I've fallen behind in my "Make A Garment A Month". Projects - August and September have both disappeared with their respective makes still sitting in pieces on the "to do" pile. So I'm calling it October's Fire Opal dress! I used Vogue 9022. A pattern that I ordered pretty quickly after it was released. I like the relaxed feel of it, and the cute pockets. I thought it would be a great work dress. Back view - what was I doing? Tuesday, October 14, 2014.
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Magpie Makery: May 2015
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Sunday, May 31, 2015. May Flowers with New Look 6299. One more dress finished and worn this May! I also cut this one out a month ago, but just got it sewn up last week. I love this bright and crazy fabric.I stalked it at the fabric store for at least a year until it was finally on sale and I decided to go for it :) It is a cotton sateen with a nice stretch; quite heavy and very amenable to taking the shape I wanted it to. I knew I wanted to make New Look 6299. What do you think of the floral trend? I've ...
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Villa Garzoni once more
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Villa Garzoni once more. Tuesday 16 September, 2014. Autumn has set in again. As if we ever had a proper summer. Ha! My kitchen smells of hot food cooking, my fingers smell of the cumin that I have been pounding in the mortar with the pestle (or was it in the pestle with the mortar? There’s a bag of apples on the floor to be dealt with, jars of stewed plums in the cupboard, a bowl of. Like stepping into another century. A couple from the humidity of the butterfly house. And a laughing duck. This gate gua...
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