handmadebycarolyn

Screenshot

Hello!  I’ve been making new things, including this new jumper that I knitting using wool bought during our holiday in Norway last year…   I posted about the wool purchase during

Hello!  I made a new pair of bathers for myself… and I’m chuckling to myself that I’ve gone kinda Bay Watch this year.  Is Bay Watch even a part of the collective consciousness any more?  hmmm I could be aging myself a bit with that reference?!

it’s only a year since I made my last pair of bathers but the fabric didn’t last as long as I was hopin...

hello!  Recently my lovely niece J married her long-time man and so of course I had to make a new dress for myself for the occasion…  I was vaguely toying with the idea of shopping for fabric before I remembered two things: 1. as everyone in our family knows, J’s favourite colour is famously yellow, and 2.  I have a piece of very yellow, and happily wed...

Hello!  I’ve made a new hoodie for myself, and think it’s rather beautiful if I say so myself.  Many years ago, when I started this blog, I would sometimes berate myself for being scared of wearing colourful clothing.  I tried to break away from making too many white things.  I think I’ve succeeded in training myself to wear more colourful clothing, but ac...

hello!   I made a few new skirts, using a new pattern, the Acacia skirt.  The pattern is a Peppermint magazine and Warp and Weft collaboration… available in the magazine for free, or as a pdf pattern from their website.  It’s a cute little A-line miniskirt with deep deep pockets and a central back zip closure.  Of course I’m always going to be inte...