I did this. F**k knows.

Style Arc Barry pants pattern. Love. Black cotton drill from Spotlight

Super satisfactory top stitching. Making another Barry pants in denim from Spotlight

The inside curve would usually mimic the crotch curve but the Barry design isn’t a straight leg so I I free wheeled the curve guided by the following inspiration…:

Subsequent to finishing these pants. I came across this illustration.

Absolutelootely love them and my feets are so white after winter

More sewing! This necklace is a sample and I have ordered more to sell at markets/my webshop/maybe some retailers?

Another Cuff Top with details; a drawstring sleeve with the eyelets at the top of the shoulder. Love it

This is the problem with t-shirts and a lot of the tops Ive been making lately, this pucker at the armpit/sleeve at top of bust, and it cant be solved with a traditional dart or a dart at this this weirdly placed area

French darts go from the lower side seam toward the bust and eliminate the bunching at the armpit on me. It does mean changing the side seam by adding back the amount of dart you’ve taken as it pulls from the front but you can wing that. I have sometimes added a godet to fill the gap as shown a few pics down

Donna pinned this top while I was wearing it. Its tricky to do it yourself. I thread traced from her pinning and made a cut-out template of that dart and now transfer that to any new top I make and see if it works or if I need to tweak it, but its so far been pretty accurate. A bit amazing. Ignore that the template shown below has a crazy swing out at the bottom of the side seam. With this method of dartage, you can also slash & spread to make a swingy top but still have it fit better

French darts to give it more shape, but its still loose & falls nicely

I know there is a tutorial on the Assembly Line blog about adding a dart to this pattern but it looked like a bit of numbers were involved so I didnt get onboard with that, panic was threatening to overcome me. And I have Donna, my friend who knows everything (she does) to sort me out with fitting issues, shes infallible.

This is Donna wearing an earring I gave her. It features a key from a Bernina cabinet that I cast in resin & gilded, along with a “Kevin” charm (about which the story is too long)

Makes a nice shape and because it isnt where darts usually go, its fairly unnoticeable. And in a print, its virtually invisible

All the t-shirts here originate from the Lark Tee, I have made dozens of these but this fitting issue really bugs me, having had such a tnt pattern

I hacked into a t-shirt I’d already made, to do a French dart because I liked this t-shirt but I couldnt handle the armpit bunching. Consequently had to install a godet (a wedge of fabric) to make the side seam match up because the dart had removed some and its fine, totally unnoticeable

BUT, be aware that in order to balance everything, you will likely need to shorten the back piece by taking out some excess as below

This back pattern piece adjustment obv doesnt work when you’re trying to fix an existing shirt.

I now close Granny Corner by saying that you will have to toile to find it, but when you have that basic French dart worked out, you can pretty much move it across most tops as a fairly accurate guide. I’ve done it three times now including the Cielo top and it already has darts. Turns out it needed the French ones as well.

Changing the subject, The Ryde market.

Setting up for Sculpture in the Valley art prize

Installation day for Sculpture in the Valley

Camie Lyons. I was in some crazy good company in this art prize

Had to borrow my parent’s Mac book and found some pics I had sent them from our time in London

London 2009. Our eldest is autistic and to say he was passionate about Ancient Rome is to understate the situation. Obssesed is accurate. Therefore it was a regular thing, making them Roman helmets and shields from paper before school, so we consequently had a surplus that they felt the market could absorb

A popup shop out the front of the house for Ancient Roman merch

For a long time, for years, I made Roman armour from A4 printing paper & sticky tape. Most mornings. I say almost all mornings because I cant remember days when I didnt but they must have happened.

Putting his hard earned money into his London telephone box piggy bank

Our house backed onto Hampstead Heath so there was good foot traffic for the pop-up, as the punters walked by on their way to the Heath pathway entrance a couple of doorways down. It was one of those super hot days that can happen in London so we also sold lemonade from the Pimms jug we nicked from the bar when at the jousting tourney at Blenheim Palace. It was a fun day. We had a lot of fun days.

We took them and their paper weaponry to Rome and Nimes, Rome was obv crowded but Nimes, my goodness! If you want quality ancient Rome they have a cracker amphitheatre and many gardens and fountains. Perhaps the most beautiful city Ive seen. We also had a map of all the Roman ruins in Britain so…lots of road trips. Lots. We saw Rome all over the place. I do not exaggerate the Rome thing

Test driving a new car with this magical aerial parking camera

The nursing home has provided these handy language cards as she increasingly falls into her first languages

Day visit to Canberra for day job work thing

We visited some old friends in Orange. It was so good to see them.

They have beautiful trees there during the day AND at night.

How to know you’re old. 6pm and got there at 5

Went to beautiful Fingal beach north of Sydney

At the smash repair factory. Bad Person merged into me on a three lane highway.

We saw Ed Kuepper. All I feel is the sweaty nights at the Qld Uni rec club and Ed Kuepper playing in an actual electrical storm. Magic nights that last forever