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The high necked cotton voile dress with giant purple flowers. A big semi-circle skirt falls elegantly below knees scraped while playing with her friends yesterday.
A thin [...]
Monsoon blues and pretty purples for warm summer days..
..with a v-shaped back to slip over independent heads, letting Mummy steal a few extra winks.
A roomy lawn cotton dress with a nearly hidden pocket for little treasures..
Back of dress with deep v-neck to slip over head
..with no zips or buttons, so it’s [...]
..and came back with t-w-e-n-t-y s-i-x m-e-t-r-e-s
(yes, that’s 28 yards)
of fabric she wasn’t looking [...]
I started making this as a quick project. Just a few hours. Then I realised I’d made the fundamental mistake of not having enough fabric for the original pattern.
I recently had the opportunity to help transform a room for a party.
A large ghastly red door needed to be prettified, so a large piece of grey cotton neutralised the offending [...]
“What large eyes you’ve got!” she exclaimed.
“All the better to see you with.”
“What large teeth you’ve got!”
“All the better to eat you with!”
Under [...]
My second attempt at binding. Time will tell who this is for!
Or if I can possibly part with the butterflies. I bought the fabric nearly a year ago at the main fabric market in Cairo and I couldn’t bare to [...]
There has been a new baby in the family. Not knowing whether a little nephew or niece it would be, I decided to hedge my bets and make something for either. It seemed a rather appropriate time to figure out binding.
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Isabella is a little girl who was born in May 2008. She is the daughter of my friends Suzie and Ramy. I was extremely well intentioned and began to make something for her before she was born. I thought it was going to be [...]
This is Sam’s bag. It’s the first time I’ve ever potato stamped (at least that I can remember), it’s the first time I’ve ever stamped on fabric, it’s the first time I’ve ever sewn with slippery fabric (satin), it’s the first [...]
I’m in a snowflake mood this year + I just taught myself to crochet + small flake patterns from here and larger ones from here = crochet snowflakes.
A few weeks ago Lynda left a note saying it was her birthday soon. Unbeknown to her, we had already started planning a birthday surprise. I, however, had yet to pick a birthday pressie. Not long after, I made a start. The [...]
I felt like making something today, and the sentiment did not extend to a report (something I should have been doing). As if a sign from Above, in catching up with my blog reading on Sew, Mama Sew (all in the name [...]
I was wandering to the tentmaker’s area in Old Cairo and passed a small shop with piles and piles of cotton sitting outside. I have been wanting to buy some for years, but for some reason have been too shy! I stopped this time and [...]
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