Buying Weaving Supplies in Melbourne, Australia
Good news for Australian weavers and even better news for Melbourne weavers is that we have a new yarn and weaving supplies shop in town. Our lockdown restrictions were loosened last week and we had an...
View ArticleFabric in Broken Point Twill
My first fabric from my Julia loom is a set of what was going to be dish cloths. But they’re too beautiful for dirty dishes! So now I’m thinking personal hand towels or wash cloths. In these days of...
View ArticleMake your own Japanese Clothes
One of the books I have borrowed on several occasions from my Guild library is Make your own Japanese Clothes by John Marshall. In fact, I have borrowed it so many times that I put the book on my gift...
View ArticleElephant Tunic
This project using B6429 was a great demonstration of how fabric selection can transform an otherwise dull looking pattern. I got the elephant fabric at a charity shop and assume it had previously been...
View ArticlePyjamas from The Assembly Line
I am very drawn to the Box Pleat Dress by The Assembly Line but it’s a big dollar investment to buy the pattern, especially while I have a drawer full of unused, unsewn patterns, many of which came...
View ArticleWaffleweave Towels
These 8/2 cotton towels were a 2020 four shaft finish. Somehow I didn’t manage to write a blog post at the time, perhaps because I made them as end of year gifts and I didn’t want to spoil the...
View ArticleZero Waste Tessellation Dress
Another adventure. This time in modern zero waste sewing. I have 1.4m of 150cm wide medium weight linen, with a few barely noticeable weaving flaws, purchased from the remnant bin at Darn Cheap...
View ArticleCompleted Zero Waste Tessellation Dress
Here it is. I am impressed that there were just tiny slivers of the black linen fabric left over. I had to do a quick swap of wrong side to right side when I was pressing the felled centre back seam...
View ArticleA Win with the Free Unisex Shirt Pattern from the V&A
This is a seriously good pattern and it’s free. I am in awe of the quality of drafting by Allice & Co. It’s not an easy task to draft a well-fitting unisex pattern, one that worked for me with no...
View ArticleZero Waste Robe
I have really enjoyed trying out the patterns in the Zero Waste Sewing book by Elizabeth Haywood. They are interesting from a design and engineering point of view and are fun to make. A few observations:
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