Last week I had a big interview for
a PHD studentship, my mind was elsewhere. I turned to my friends for ideas and, as ever, they didn’t fail me – 2 brilliant ideas in a week. Christy (who also dug the hole for me to bury it) suggested that I should make a Time Capsule. Wonderful. Then Mini (who once taught me to cook) suggested T could be for Tailoring – I could make an item of clothing! Glorious.
As we are now into week U, and I have even more exciting things planned, this will only be a short post – mostly pictures of the dress I made.
This dress was designed by the multi-talented Rachael and can be found at her lovely blog ‘Talk2TheTrees’ here. The instructions were really very easy to follow and, putting it together on the sewing machine, it took me only 45 minutes. Here are the results:
I’m really pleased with it – an effective simple way of using the lengths of fabric I have sitting in my cupboard. I’ve already got my next one planned!
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I just discovered talk2thetrees this week! My sister, a wonderful seamstress, made a gorgeous shirt with instructions from her blog. I wish I could sew! Maybe someday I’ll actually be capable of sewing a straight line. The dress you made is lovely!
It’s a lovely blog isn’t it, full of brilliant ideas. I’m really pleased with the dress, fits really nicely for something so simple. You should give sewing a go. Nothing nicer than someone saying ‘Where did you buy that?’ and responding ‘I made it!’. Make sure you send me pictures of the result x