Born Free

Or at least with an urge to wear a Safari suit.
To me a Safari suit is all about the 70's, just ask Yves Saint Laurent who created this sexy number:

and then there is this hot set by Rag and Bone

 
or this by Comptoir des Contonniers

and now, coming soon by Simplicity and Fat Chick  Design

The cat's meow!

mmmm 70's :)

Upcyling again...

Recently I was given a bag of clothes from a friend who has lost lots of weight! Whoop for Lin!
Some of the clothes were very me and I have squeezed them into my wardrobe,  other were just not me and have gone to the op shop (I am stealing this phrase from the Oz girls as I think its cool - op = charity shop, opping = charity shops shopping) but others were very lush fabric, so I have kept them for upcycling.

First I took this cardy:

and started to make this bag:

and then I took this shirt:

and started to make this skirt:

I will let you know who they work out soon :)

Winter coat

Today I finally finished my coat. Woo Hoo!
My mother in law and I started this project so long ago!
Marilyn my MIL has been a complete sewing rock for me this last year.
I can't actually remember when we began, but it was at least 6 months ago.
The pattern is simplicity.
After cutting the pattern we stopped working on it for one reason or another.
At the start of the six weeks summer holidays we pieced together the body and it sat like this until last week:

We have spent two and a half days on it since and it is now finished.

I wore it to school today to pick the girls up and I got some lovely feedback.

The fabric is from Ikea, the lining is from my local dressmakers store, Watson & Thornton
and the buttons are vintage 60's from Marilyn's stash.

It is the biggest project I have taken on since I began sewing, which was amazingly only a year ago.
I couldn't have achieved it on my own, so as a thank you I bought Marilyn a new Beswick Beatrix Potter figurine, Samuel Whiskers.

She has been collecting them for at least 40 years and this character has always been missing!
I hope she likes it as much as I like my coat :)
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