cotton

Sewing an elastic waist skirt is super quick and easy! It’s a garment I like to sew because I can use scraps of fabric from my stash (for a standard one-layer elastic waist skirt I only need about 50 cm…

As you have noticed, I haven’t managed to sew and post almost anything in the last months. There’s been something new that has kept me away from my sewing room and blog. Besides some new jobs, including teaching in evening…

This skirt shouldn’t have been a mini, but a long skirt. I only have mini or above the knee skirts and, as I did with maxidresses this summer, I wanted to give long skirts a try by sewing one of…

I’ve got to admit first of all that I have never loved maxi dress. I have got only one summer maxi dress in my wardrobe, that I bought on impulse some years ago and I only started wearing and appreciating…

Here is another handmade gift! I sewed this hoodie out for Daniele, my brother. The pattern is Finlayson Sweater by Thread Theory and I made it with a beautiful cotton jersey, double face grey and blue, bought on Supercut.it. My brother…

This Christmas I made two handmade presents. The first one is this men’s shirt for Filippo. I sewed it up with a Etro‘s cotton tartan remnant and bronze snap buttons. The base model is Negroni Shirt by Colette Patterns that…

It’s been a while since I decided to try to sew knit fabric. I also asked Silvia of Sewing Princess some suggestions (thank you Silvia 🙂 ). She suggested me not to start with a too light-weight knit fabric, just…

As I promised in the previous post, here is my outfit for my friend Cristina’s wedding also. For the occasion I sewed up a completely DIY outfit: top, skirt and pochette. Generally I always wear dresses for weddings, this is…

Last Saturday Cristina, one of my best friends, got married and for the occasion I sewed two dresses for the kids of two friends of mine, Carmen (the bride’s sister) and Marika (the chief bridesmaid). Both little girls, Sara and…