Last year we were blessed with two grandbabies. Little O is the daughter of my oldest son, and Master D is the son of my second son. Little O’s mum had bought some merino and asked me to make some tops for Little O. I found a pattern with the envelope style neck that makes […]
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Whew! It’s been a busy couple of weeks! I was intending to add to this blog more frequently so that I could get it up to date. Perhaps I’ll manage to this week and over Easter. I’ve just created another blog of the life and times of our family so if you’d like to know more
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Most years I make costumes for our dance studio concert. In 2011 the main ballet was Les Sylphides. We are only a small studio so the piece involved all the dancers from the littlies through to the oldest students. Miss L-M, the teacher, wanted a romantic tutu type look…but not full tutus. So I made
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After making Miss L her tutu one of the mum’s whose daughter also does competitions asked me to make her lovely young lass a new tutu in 2011. This tutu is in the romantic style with longer skirts than one with a short skirt. The bodice is of stretch velvet lined with stretch drill to give
It has been a busy week, quite a bit of activity and creativity happening here! Yesterday I had a very basic but very necessary hand sewing activity. My two youngest have both needed new ballet shoes or ballet flats as they are often referred to. Some come with the elastics sewn on, and others do