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July 30, 2017 Finished Projects / Marfy / Tops

F3408: Painterly Blouse

After feeling paralysed about doing any sewing due to the ridiculously large garment sewing queue in my head, and choosing to

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September 27, 2015 Finished Projects / Maternity / Megan Neilsen / Tops / WIP

MN1006: ‘Cara’ – Ruched Maternity Tee Mk I, II & III

After the great success that was the Ruched Maternity Skirt, I figured I’d leveled up and so started on the

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August 9, 2015 Finished Projects / Tops / Vogue

V1247: Romance Is Born… & Frocktails!

My goodness, the weather has been completely against me ever getting photos of this new wardrobe addition. But with Frocktails

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June 11, 2015 French Jacket / Jackets / Things of limited interest to other people / Toile / Tops

Hello, Strangers!

“Hi, my name is Melanie, and it’s been 6 months since I last posted”. Yep, and about 5 of that

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July 7, 2014 Finished Projects / Style Arc / Tops

Style Arc: A Zimmermann Cyd

And back to normal blog programming! My goodness, it feels like it’s been forever… not to mention I’ve had a

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August 26, 2013 Finished Projects / New Look / Tops

NL6735: Lavender Lace Tops

I wear my latte and lace top a LOT. So when Helen unexpectedly dropped a whole stack of really gorgeous lace

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August 12, 2013 Finished Projects / Pants / Papercut Patterns / Toile / Tops

P1003 & P1004: Plenty of Papercuts

After an extremely challenging start to this year and having nurtured some pretty bad habits as a means of dealing

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July 16, 2013 Pants / Papercut Patterns / Things of limited interest to other people / Tops

P1003 & P1004: Hi-tech Fabric

I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but in the last decade of so fabric technology appears to have

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January 28, 2013 Finished Projects / New Look / Tops

NL6735: Latte and Lace

Ethereal geometric lace, some coffee coloured knit and a whole lotta pivot points. Mix them all together and you’ll end

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December 24, 2012 Burda / Finished Projects / Toile / Tops

117-08-2009 Serenageo’s Blouse

Today I’m going to blab on about how much I love the sewing blogosphere. Everyone is just so awesome. Case

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Hi, I'm Melanie! Sewist, Feminist and Industrial Engineer. This space is for my love affair with all things garment construction :)

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Me, with @allthewhimsicalthings (the lady who actually instigated the very first Frocktails event, back in 2013) at #melbournefrocktails19 - in a very hastily made up knit dress. Pattern is @marfyfashionpatterns F3646 from the 2015/16 catalogue. On a side note, the next time I splurge and have makeup done, I must remember to a) actually take photos and b) make sure the person doing it doesn’t make me orange 😜
Attention Melb, Syd and Adelaidians - @susankhalje is BACK early next year - classes are up on her website!!! I’m massively 😭😭😭 and FOMOing, and will likely drop in to each Melb class to say hi and to drool over y’all shoulders with bubs in tow. Book now, lest you miss out!
Rocking out with new hair in my @grainlinestudio #morrisblazer - fabric bought last pregnancy, finished this pregnancy with just 6 weeks left of work to go 😆 A good little pattern that I made significant adjustments to - new two-piece sleeves, new armscye location, added shaping, extra boob room and more Couture techniques than I really needed to add, considering I started this as a ‘just a quick and dirty sew’ so I can have something to wear 🤷‍♀️🤦‍♀️ apparently I just can’t help myself. Dress is by @isabellaoliver - whose maternity knits I live and swear by. If only we could BUY knit fabric this good, is all I’m sayin’.

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