Easy scarf tutorial

I have seen quite a few 'forever' scarves around lately, so I decided to make a scarf I already owned in to a forever scarf. It is really easy and they look great with almost any outfit.

1. If your scarf has tassles, cut them off

2. Pin the ends together, and then sew a straight stitch along the line. 

You're done! Super easy!

Men's shirt remake

Sorry for the hiatus.. I'm not very good at remembering to blog!

Anyway, a few weeks back S emailed me to tell me he'd ripped his favourite work shirt (while at work) and asked if I could fix it. Upon closer inspection when I got home, I realised I couldn't so I decided to remake it in to a shirt for myself.

I used Colette Sorbetto as my base pattern and since the shirt had buttons I omitted the front pleat. The shirt was just the right size for my size Sorbetto top, I was actually really lucky it worked so well. 

I added the darts like the pattern asks and this made it more feminine. I find the smallest Sorbetto size to be too big on me still so I took it in further at the sides and I placed the pattern toward the bottom of the shirt so I would get the nice rounded hem that the shirt already had...not having to hem was an added bonus!

Here is a before and after. The pictures aren't so great, but I was taking self-portraits because we haven't had time for S to take pictures for me. I will update again when we've got better pictures.

Teddy

S has an old 50mm Nikon lens (one that only works if you manually focus it) and I have been using it on our SLR a lot lately, just playing with it trying to get some decent pics. 

Ted is a great little model, although a little impatient..

The weekend

This weekend was a pretty quiet one. On Friday night, S and I celebrated our 5 year anniversary at Glebe Point Diner. It was amazing!! I didn't get any pictures though.. I always forget my camera.

Saturday I went and bought some fabric and bits and pieces from The Remnants Warehouse in Alexandria. They have a great range and their stuff is much cheaper than Lincraft and Spotlight. The service is friendlier and the shop is much more organised!

We also headed to Centennial Park in the afternoon for a walk to take advantage of rare sunny day in Sydney.

Yesterday I sewed for most of the day and then we had friends over with their 16 week old Burmese Mountain Dog puppy. She is just lovely and such an excitable little girl.

Of course, the afternoon was topped off with a nice Rekorderlig cider