by Quirky Kiwi | Jul 2, 2018 | Future Projects, Miscellaneous
So, what is the (scary) fabric stash pledge? I, Megan, the Quirky Kiwi, have pledged not to buy ANY fabric for one year! Why? Here’s why! As you can see I have a lot of fabric, 292 metres of it in fact! (It doesn’t even include all the fabric I bought to...
by Quirky Kiwi | Mar 26, 2015 | Completed Garment, Current Project, Future Projects, Vintage
So as I mentioned in an earlier post, I finished making my first ever garment from a vintage pattern! (Well actually I finished it at the end of last year but it’s taken me until now to work out how to take decent photos without the assistance of a friendly...
by Quirky Kiwi | Feb 10, 2015 | Future Projects, Miscellaneous, Vintage
Yippee! The Great British Sewing Bee is back in all it’s glory! It’s series 3 and I was wondering how they were going to make it more difficult and/or find better sewers than series 2. Well there’s certainly some very competent sewers this time...
by Quirky Kiwi | Sep 29, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
“Enough of the collecting of vintage patterns, I need to make a garment from one!” I decided the other day. I made a few decisions about what my first project should be: I thought I’d start off with a simple top, nothing too complicated, so that if...
by Quirky Kiwi | Jul 7, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
Well, over the past few weeks I’ve managed to increase my vintage pattern collection quite considerably! You can get some real treasures on ebay – I won an auction for a lot of 12 vintage patterns and it was like Xmas when I opened up the parcel! Here is a...
by Quirky Kiwi | Jun 14, 2014 | Future Projects, Vintage
Woo hoo! I’m a proper blogger now – I have real comments on my blog posts, not just the spam comments you always get! I’m a happy bunny! (It doesn’t take much, I know 😉 ) Ok, back to what I intended to write about . . . About a year ago, one...
