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Self Stitched September – Day 2, 3 and some news!

September 3rd, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized

  Days 2 and 3 were spent at work, where my uniform is black and white. This means that it’s going to be hard to avoid repetition with my work clothes, but we’ll see what I can do! Do you recognise Day 2’s skirt? Yep, that’s the ankle length granny skirt that I got from [...]

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Self Stitched September : Day 1

September 2nd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

Pinch, punch, first of the month! It’s the first of September, which means that Self Stitched September is now underway! As I explained in this post, I wasn’t able to stick to my initial pledge of wearing solely garments that I’d made myself, so I modified my pledge to include second hand clothing. I’ve also [...]

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Holy moly it’s next week

August 27th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Uncategorized

September is nearly here! We all know what that means… Self-Stitched September is just around the corner! My sewing activity of late has been mostly on the refashioning side – I haven’t posted about them, because they’ll obviously feature a lot in the Self-Stitched September posts. I’m looking forward to the challenge, but I’ve hit [...]

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Breaking the silence

June 13th, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized

My oh my, what a week it has been. I made a much anticipated return to the Sea of Swan this week, and it’s been fantastic. It made missing Germany so much easier! I won’t lie though, much drunken debauchery was involved, but so were many many pub lunches, living room dancing, the realisation that [...]

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