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Elizabeth Zimmermann Seamless Raglan Knit-along #2
Before I got started I wanted to make some slippers for friends. What is nice about knitting for others is that you get to use colours that are not your own ideal shades. Orange, or pea green for...
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Elizabeth Zimmermann Seamless Raglan Knit-along #3 – selecting the right length
This week was my Mum’s 90th birthday, so the whole family went to Lancashire to celebrate with her. She had 60 or so friends and relatives round and thankfully used a caterer so the food was fantastic...
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Elizabeth Zimmermann Seamless Raglan Knit-along #5
Welcome back! We are engaged, internationally, in the creation of unique but matching jerseys! I hope to have only one more set of instructions and discussion post after this one, which deals with how...
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The Dress Like Frida Sewalong Week 1
Printed voile Victoriana ruffled blouse with rick rack, worn with a striped bias cut skirt My last post got a fantastic response – over 25 comments, and many of you have signed up to the Sewalong. A...
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The Dress Like Frida Sewalong Week 2 How to make a Huipil (and a giveaway)
This beautiful Huipil, made in Mexico by skilled artisan craftswomen is available from the Victoria and Albert museum for about £300. I believe this represents a fair price for the maker,...
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The Dress Like Frida Sewalong Week 3 Embellishment
A Quick Huipil Some people have finished their Huipil already! Old friends Sue S and Lara and new friends Raquel in Taiwan and @rowinggranny – go and have a look at our #dresslikefridasal hashtag on...
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Unfinished work – UFO round up
I have really enjoyed my summer raglan sweater knit a long, followed by the Frida sew a long. I hope you did too. But now I need to think what I want to do next. To be honest the sew and knit alongs...
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Top down Autumn League jumper
Introduction to my new project I mentioned in my previous post that I was done with Elizabeth Zimmermann seamless sweaters for a while. I want to learn something new. And I came across this. Autumn...
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Vogue 8333 jacket
The pattern It’s a long time since I cut out this pattern. I think it was about October 2017, so nearly a year ago. And even longer since I bought it. This was one of the first patterns I bought when I...
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#TransformTSAL – Fabric Manipulation Techniques
Some time ago my friend and fellow Board member Linde Carr lent me a lovely book by Colette Wolff, The Art of Manipulating Fabric. It’s a comprehensive book, rather scholarly, and presented entirely in...
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