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Blue Floral Corset – Finished Pictures… 25 Jun 2013 | 07:51 pm
In all honesty this corset has been more or less finished for the last couple of months but I messed up the bias binding on one side of it and had to re-do that, something that I kept putting off. Whe...
Colette Laurel two ways… 1 May 2013 | 01:37 am
In a crazy fit of creativity, I managed to knock out two dresses over the weekend. Two versions of Colette Patterns’ Laurel dress, just in time for the contest that they are holding. Here’s the first:...
Burdastyle Tunic Dress 29 Apr 2013 | 03:07 am
So my first and only entry for the Pattern Stash Contest over at Pattern Runway is a Tunic that has been modified into a dress jacket/coat thing. I made this for my mum who wanted something lightweigh...
Survival Art! 1 Apr 2013 | 01:00 am
Last weekend I headed on over to Somerset house for the School for Creative Start Up’s Showcase (phew! That was a mouthful!!). It’s a year-long business programme for creatives interested in starting ...
Happy Easter! 31 Mar 2013 | 09:30 pm
Happy Easter Everybody and to those who don’t celebrate it, i hope you’re having a happy public holiday! For me, it’s time to come home and see my family, which is a good enough excuse in my book to...
How Much is that Leopard Print Swimsuit in the Window? 11 Mar 2013 | 11:54 pm
Morley college, where i’ve done a couple of courses, currently have an exhibition displaying past student’s work. I went and had a look after work as I had lent my swimsuit to the exhibition. Imagine ...
Pattern Stashing…. 10 Mar 2013 | 10:41 pm
Having come back from my holidays barely a week ago, I’ve had time to reflect on what I want to do with myself and my sewing. Having finished my academic studies a while ago and being in a steady alth...
New York, New York…. 4 Mar 2013 | 07:48 pm
If ever there was a case of the green-eyed monster, it was me, Saturday afternoon in the Garment District. Proper, full on, Jealousy. A horribly unattractive quality I know, but the sewists of New Yor...
The Roses Corset… 4 Mar 2013 | 07:08 pm
I finished this corset a couple of weeks ago just before I went on holiday but ran out of time to blog about it. I am extremely happy with how it turned out. Here’s the reminder: Floral printed cott...
20th Century Corsetry Part 2… 11 Feb 2013 | 02:59 am
I feel like introducing this post as “Hello, my name is Freya and I am obsessed with corsets…” rather like in some sort of Alcoholics Anonymous meeting because I seem to only every post about corsets ...
