clothing | mary emmens

WIP Wednesday and a winner

13 May

I have a new WIP this week; it’s my goal for May’s ALYoF: A Western Shirt from the book Little One Yard Wonders for Leah. Progress is slow as 3 out of 4 of us have come down with a...
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Still not going to the gym

11 May

Number one of my 2nd quarter FAL list was a pair of City Gym Shorts for Leah; she had chosen fabric but that was as far as I had got: A couple of weeks ago Bethan asked if she could...
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Shirt for a birthday? What are the chances?

4 May

One of the projects on my finish-along list is a Western shirt from the Little One Yard Wonders book for my almost 8 year old. The largest size shirt in the book is 6 but the chest measurement makes me...
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2nd Quarter Finish-Along List

10 Apr

It’s time to round up all those unfinished, just started projects and make a list for the second quarter finish-along. 1. I’m thinking ahead to summer (although to be honest Leah wears shorts almost all year round) and Leah has...
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Diversions

1 Mar

I thought I was on a quilt making mission when at the end of the week the children started talking about World Book Day (is it really across the World or just the UK?). Our school has decided on the...
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Another Honey Blouse – ALYoF

26 Dec

At the beginning of the month I set out my plan to make another Honey Blouse. I’d forgotten that making something a second time round is often quicker and easier than the first time. I had already decided to lengthen...
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Before the end of the year I will…

5 Dec

This month I really want to make myself another Honey Blouse. Another? Yes; I made one last month and really like the finished result, I’ve not blogged about it yet or got any photographs of it other than this one...
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Time for bed

27 Sep

A year on from these and these both of my youngest children have almost grown out of the pyjamas I made for them so I browsed online fabric shops for flannel before remembering that I have some in my stash! Amazingly when...
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It’s still shorts weather here

15 Sep

Another post about shorts and another pattern from Little One Yard Wonders (read reviews of the Western Shirt here and Casey Apron here). I made shorts earlier in the summer for Bethan, and Leah said she needed some too. So she pulled...
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Sunny Day Shorts

31 Aug

At the beginning of summer there was a request from my eldest for new shorts; she had grown out of all the pairs I had made last summer (or was it the summer before?). The pattern I’d previously used was...
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