And some more sewing finishes…

Some of you may remember that I am going back to Indonesian teaching this year. Two cultural icons of Indonesia are batik and wayang kulit, which are Javanese shadow puppets, intricately carved out of buffalo hide. Javanese colours of batik tend to be brown and cream, two colours which do not feature in my wardrobe,

Sew What? The dressmaking edition

I hate photos of myself, so I hope you realise how rare this is… And it’s really hard to get a good selfie… Occasionally I buy around 3 yards of fabric with the intention of making a dress. I have one favourite go-to pattern, and a couple of others knocking around. For the dresses here,

Sew What? The Skirt Edition

While you are recovering, I’ll show you what I’ve been up to lately. This is going to take two or more posts, because I have gone slightly and obsessively mad sewing clothes… The house looked like a fabric bomb had exploded for a while and I churned out 7 items of clothing in a week.

TGIFF – Earpod case

There’s a birthday coming up so it was a good excuse to whip something up. But being perennially indecisive, I couldn’t decide which fabric to use. Red? Or pink? These little earpod pouches from Dog Under My Desk’s Earbud pouch tutorial are phenomenally quick to whip up. I still can’t decide which I prefer! Maybe I