#slowfashion

The white dress is complete! From pillow case and duvet cover, to cutting additional lengthening strips from a vintage sheet, to scraping free time from between sessions breaking up old cement, hammering

Dearest Needlework Friends! I will try to express what a relief it is today, to get some momentum behind my sewing practise again! The atelier has been a bedroom and a living room, a store room and a workshop

updated photo, from this morning Hallo Brilliant Needlework Friends! It has been a while! As you can see fro the chaos behind my dress model, we're deep in our highly inexpert attempts to make our wee

Un dibujo en acuarela de peces

We had THE most successful opening night of this mostra in the Galleria Artemis! The most reinvented clothing I ever 'sold'! It had to be done in a fairly clandestine manner however, as someone locally

I worked a lot on this dress this week - it still wants major efforts to get it to completion, and so I'm using Needlework Monday to reflect on what it needs doing - and to hold me accountable to finish

Ciao Tutti! I've been at my sewing table again this week, as a way of grounding and calming myself, amidst much excitement pending our acquiring of the house and land next door to our #sovereignhomestead

This is the bag that took so very long for me to finish: there is something rather special about a thing that has to be put aside for a good while – for me, it creates a tension that is like a bow string

Frogged 3x. My brain is a board meeting. AI is my co-pilot. This vest isn't just wool, it’s an Active energy rebellion.

see below for the story behind this photo A funny thing happened this morning,: as I pulled put my epic sweatercoat project in a bar in a nearby city to our land - looking very much forward to finishing

I have completed the front, back, collar and one full sleeve! I am working on the last sleeve right now and then all I will have left to do is seam it together, weave in the ends and possibly add some

the skirt of this coat, beginning to take shape Not quite the classic ‘lingerie and a fur coat’ – a phenomenon that is quite fun and sensuous, but this week I am very proud to have made good progress on

My first Needlework Monday post in a while!! Oh, I have missed very much the sewing, the camaradery, the excitement of switching my internet on in the morning to find the treasures that others are working

O wow, I have missed writing my #needleworkmonday blogs these past weeks! There have been a ton of reasons that I’ve been both away from the sewing machine and without the necessary comforts to indulge

me and stefania, a couple of weeks ago at the 50c stall My most favourite ever market stall in Telese Terme – one of the few fabulous, full and varied markets left in the area where we used to live – has

These are a pair of fancy pants that I've upcycled out of three old garments and a piece of vintage embroidery; what do you think?? I adore stripes of all kinds, and I especially love mixing up multiple

For the first time in what feels like an age, this week I got really into my sewing mission! - working towards finishing 3 fabulous projects, visualising an organic, private 'busyness', and imagining lots

the current stage that I'm (a wee bit stuck) at These huge trousers are my latest invention, and I really would benefit from some advice from you all – I trust very much in the Needlework Monday community

styling up a purchase from the 50c stall this week; a great all-round black dress, which i paired with leg-warmers and wee leather bootshoes What an amazing week this is – of creativity, of communing with

Do you remember these pieces that I mentioned in last week’s post? A pair of fluffy wool-like trousers, and a blue real-wool vintage handmade skirt? They were beginning to come together in my mind slowly