Sew 'n' pressed!

Brilliant store name in Ireland!

laura x

The Cloth Shop

The Cloth Shop was a great find in Dublin. A beautiful range of fabric types, prints and other habby. 

I'm always a fan of Liberty prints and loved the animal one! 

If you are not near Dublin any time soon you can buy online. The lovely lady mentioned she has lots of Australian customers!

laura x

Vintage Portraits

I couldn't go past these vintage portraits at a 
street market in a small Scottish town. 

I love the facial expressions, 
clothing and hair styles and poses. 

Andy the man I bought them from said they 
were all from the same album, 

but no names on the back. 

It looks like they were a well to do family!

laura x

Victoria and Albert

One of my favorite places to visit when in London. 

These pics are from the permanent collection as no photos allowed from the Bridal and Italian fashion exhibitions that were on. 

It was a big day of fashion with fitting in the three exhibitions on. I might have been, dare i say a bit fashioned out by the end of the day.

Disgraceful I know!

laura x

Oxford Vintage Fair

Found this little gem at the Oxford Vintage Fair!

 Celebrating my find in the famous 

The Eagle and Child pub.

laura x

Vintage at Portobello Market

This was my favorite stall at The Portobello Market.

How cute are those little mannequin heads!

laura x

1940's War Time Dress

I made this Retro Butterick 1946's (B5281) dress pattern for a 1940's war time murder mystery party! I just happened to have a lovely dark green fabric just like in the envelope pic. 

It was a time consuming dress. With cute little asymmetrical details, fully lined and lots of hand stitching. 

I found a perfect hat on e-bay to complete the outfit. It was a winning assemble as I guessed Agent Scott's secret identity!

laura x

Vintage Post Cards

I found these colorful 1920's hand painted photo post cards at Portabello Market in London.

I love the writing on the back,

 Winnie and Dolores what great names!

laura x

Japanese Doona Cover

This project has been completed for a while 

now but I still wanted to share it.

I came across a bag of beautifull Japanese kimono off  cuts all in shades of blue. I fell instantly in love and thought that I would create a patchwork style doona cover for my partner since the colours were more masculine compared to my usual bright style.

I was inspired by the delicate hand Sashiko stitching I found on parts of the fabric and decided to do all the stitching of the fabric on to the base also by hand. Now I must say that there were times where I started to regret this decision but am certainly glad that I stuck with it as my partner loved the final result and so do I! 

laura x

Scarf Tying 101 with Hermes

Spending a year traveling around the world with just a backpack, light packing is top priority. 

After seeing Hermes scarf knotting cards I'm convinced the scarf is one versatile must have accessory.

Unfortunately a Hermes scarf is a bit too pricy but I will have a great time searching the Paris markets for a lovely vintage one!

There are 21 cards but here are some of 

my favourite looks!

laura x

A Crochet Adventure With Plusle & Minun!

These two cuties where made for a special little boy Xavier, who is a big Pokemon fan!

You can find the pattern, plus all kinds of other great Amigurumi patterns at WolfDreamer!

Xavier and his new friends!

laura x

A Quilt For Emma

I finally finished my first quilt! 

It is for my good friend Lou's little girl 

Emma first birthday. 

 For the front of the quilt I wrote a poem, found a cool crayon font and had it printed at Spoonflower. 

I picked an adorable Koala print also from Spoonflower for the back.

I bought the purple polka dot fabric for the border and the pre-made bias binding from GJ's Fabrics.

Having a look at my colour choices! 

I was quite happy with this combo, not too girly girl!

I used a walking foot so the fabric would 

evenly feed through the machine.

The masking tape was used as a guide to get 
lovely stright lines.

Mitring the corners is always a bit tricky. 

I machine stitched the binding down on one side, folded it around to the other side 

and hand stitched it down.

I hand embroidered my name and the date to add a little special touch!

Lou and Emma looking happy!

I am very happy too with how it turned out! 

I'm already dreaming of my next one, 

adult size next time!

laura x

SJP Interview

The Vogue channel is always a great 

place to procrastinate 

when you should be organising a year long trip! 

laura x

Cover Girl

I watch the show Girls but am not sure that I like it. I find the characters hard to relate to and annoying. 

Why do i keep watching? Bloody good question, it's just one of those things…

I was pleasantly surprised when Lena Dunham scored the cover of Vogue, 

 made a little video and 

I LOVED it!!!

laura x

Color Crazy

J. Crew keeps capturing my attention. 

With killer heels, fabulous color 

and cute videos I'm smitten! 

I am very excited to discover they have a 

store in Toronto! 

289 shoes….sigh!

laura x

Happy 2014!

laura x