Everything I've ever sewn.

-Just about. Because I'm a pauper (and not a Prince) everything I make is made from second hand fabric, lace, buttons and embellishments.

Sunday, 5 July 2009

A green waistcoat called Corduroy:

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In the picture I'm wearing my Charlie Chaplin coat and trousers. But the green waistcoat is one I made recently. -I like to think it...
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About a 1940s jacket and it's pointy hood.

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Here I am wearing the jacket made from the above pattern. It's got a nice pointy hood. The fabric and buttons I used were second hand. (...

Putting together a Charlie Chaplin costume

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The only thing I acually made were the pants, which I made oversized and baggy. I got a coat second hand and made it into a small tailcoat, ...
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Wednesday, 1 July 2009

My grandparents peeking out of a frame.

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A rather odd wedding photograph of them. I glued it and some card onto back, and if that wasn't enough, on top of all those layers I glu...
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Saturday, 14 February 2009

Greetings

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Hello there. You can see that there is quite a gap between this post and my last, this is because I've begun studying costume constructi...
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Friday, 30 January 2009

Still an interesting costume.

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A little bit of Photoshop in honour of my brother Johnny's birthday. Hurriedly, and partly for my own amusement, I stuck his and his wif...
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Tuesday, 23 December 2008

Magnet making. And two little clown statues.

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Each real estate agent in our area issues a calender magnet every year without fail. Inevitably there will be a photo of the agent, each wit...
Tuesday, 16 December 2008

I'm a busy little bee.

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Once again Mum has got us, but mainly me, busy. She's very clever this way, I only just realised how clever, she's got me making th...
Monday, 15 December 2008

A product of my ironing: the clown with the impossible long arm.

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I like this iron on transfer paper! I'm going to make some t-shirts for my brother with all his favourite sayings on them, a good Christ...
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Saturday, 13 December 2008

Some old pictures.

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I have a plan to print some of these out and iron them onto a t-shirt. Pop and Nanny 1930 something: Probably just before Pop went off to wa...
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Thursday, 4 December 2008

More decoration.

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I've counted 20 frames in my room, with old photos, new photos, old pictures etc. And now heres another one I've just put together, ...

Just so I don't feel it's gone to waste.

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Well, I got my call yesterday, telling me I'd been accepted to study costume at this place . At my interview (is that what it's cal...
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Saturday, 29 November 2008

Mighty glorious these.

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Ah, there is something wrong with a man if he does not want to wear these . How about those breeches? You know those over-worn 3/4 length pa...
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Saturday, 22 November 2008

Felt spats.

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I got those shoes for $2 and covered them with felt and fabric glue. They're meant to look like they've got spats on. I quite like t...
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Friday, 14 November 2008

A felt cameo brooch.

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Not being able to sew lately must be the reason for the churning out of all these non sewing projects. First the clay, then the clay paintin...

More than just a mime-head.

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Monday, 10 November 2008

The mime-head and other stories.

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I don't know what kind of clay this is but it is wonderful stuff. It's easy to mold, it isn't messy, and when it is dry you can ...
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A hat with no uses.

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Pretty much the most useless thing I've made. It is, I think because of the shape, called a pillbox hat. I had the shell lying around wh...
Sunday, 2 November 2008

What would you do with 130 old sewing patterns.

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Aha, it finally arrived, a big box of 130 sewing patterns. I paid AU$100 including postage, which works out to about AU$o.80 a pattern. I wa...
Friday, 31 October 2008

The oaf-ish tangled mess.

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Of course I didn't mean it to turn out oaf-ish, but staring at the picture just now it seems the only word to describe it. I probably sp...
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