While I’m not finding a lot of time to make sewing-crafty stuff, it’s because I’m building a shower. Here’s the frame for the curved bench seat, because I think it’s a basic human right to be able to sit down in the shower. It’s better than falling over while washing your toes. What happened next …
Time for a cake interlude. I can’t actually remember who I made this cake for or why. I mean obviously I made it because I love making crazy cakes. But I often have other reasons, like birthdays and weddings. I haven’t made one of these in ages because of the lack of kitchen. I am …
This sweater I just finished would have earned me my knitting black belt if I hadn’t been aiming for it to fit me (chest measurement 42″) and accidentally made it fit my partner (chest 34″) but at least I get to look at it forever! It took me many months, lost count, but I’m feeling …
Royal Exchange Costume Hire Dept has a million awesome costumes in sizes typical of actresses, since that’s who the costumes were made for. Actresses are more often of petite, slender stature than the rest of us, so one of my great joys is to make historical dresses to fit people who like their pie. Like …
Here’s a fun dress I made (modeled by the lovely Luda at Royal Exchange) Man, I love working there. So many lovely fabrics, I can create and design and add lace to the lace on the lace if I want to and then I don’t even have to find room in a closet for the …
In my (voluntary) job at Royal Exchange Theatre’s costume hire department, I get to play with the most wonderful fabrics that I could never afford otherwise. They had this jacket, only the main fabric had been silk and had perished with the kind of punishing use we put it to. So I was given it …
Also at Royal Exchange, they had a knackered Battenberg lace parasol. I hate to see things go to waste, so I made it into a shoulder cape with some other bits and bobs they had lying around in similar cream colour. I love working there.
I picked up a resin stag head in an after-christmas sale a few years ago, with the intention of decorating it in some way. Not very long after that, my partner requested some fancy tweed trousers and waistcoat. Having totally fallen in love with tweed, I decided to cover the stag head in it. I …
