Category: Wonderings
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Repurpose: Hawaiian shirt
Saw this old, holey cotton shirt in the charity shop and knew it was destined to be a play set pour moi. The clouds! The colours! I wanted to repurpose as much as possible so I didn’t have to do the work – the buttons, the hems – so I didn’t use a pattern and…
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The Little Carnival of Women
For many hundreds, if not thousands, of years, women have experienced organised and spontaneous events of shared madness. Before Christianity got rid of everything fun, an Italian community in Puglia had a kind of festival, later named il carnevaletto delle donna (the little carnival of women) by a seventeenth-century physician called Georgio Baglivi. It allowed…
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A 1940s gymsuit
I was looking SPECIFICALLY for a 1940s gymsuit pattern because they’re incredibly hard to come by. When I at last found one, I was fooled into thinking it looked quite simple. Not many pattern pieces, short instructions. But no – it was that there basically were no instructions. I’ve bemoaned this before: vintage patterns assume…
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Eight years of content writing
After I left Yell, where I had my very first copywriting job, I continued writing content for them. Many, many articles about small business marketing – I loved it. I kept at it for eight years. Unfortunately, they scaled back a lot of their freelance resource last year. Now, their content hub has had a…
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Extra hardware
I like gubbins. Bits. No, not those bits. Furbelows. On houses, on cars and on clothes. On everything, please, and the sillier, the better. Ornate brass skirting board corner protector levels of silly. What I have realised is that there is nothing stopping me adding a useless strap to a pair of shorts. Extra loops…
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