Feb 27, 2015

Bruyère

        I’m wearing a top hat to distract you from the badly matching lines and the moiré!         This is the Deer&Doe Bruyère Shirt in a mishmash of sizes and bearing so many alterations that the original pattern got buried so deep it would take a shovel to dig it out. Why? Because the way my body is built is soooooo far away from the Deer&Doe “standard”. This pattern is not a generic one and when I say generic I mean based on some generic...

Feb 5, 2015

A Bottom-up(ish) Pair of Gingers

        I've made jeans! I've made jeans! I've made jeans!         Fabric:         The awful denim I've made these in is one of the fabrics part of my #badfabricspledge. Before washing, was thin and quite stiff, without an apparent texture (looked waxed somehow) and dark grey blue in color. Then I washed it. Terrible. Lost all body, sheen and discoloured in long streaks. I had to dye it twice to get an uniform coloration -...
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