Vintage and Thrift
Here in Wellington we have a number of great thrift shops to choose from and I visit quite regularly. Recently we made a trek out to Upper Hutt as we hadn’t visited the shops out […]
Author: Rachel McKelvie
Me Made wardrobe update
As promised in my last wardrobe post, we had another coat making day with 4 coats made. I made the short version of the Nova Coat in a purple pinstripe Japanese wool that I purchased […]
Hand knitted socks
4 years ago I decided that I was going to knit myself a pair of socks. Fast forward 3 years to Lockdown 1.0 and the half a sock that was languishing in my WIP pile […]
Nova Coat sew-a-long
Very fittingly on the first day of Me Made May, I met up with three friends for a Nova Coat sew-a-long. Myself, A and J were making coats and M was there to give us […]
I brought a new thing
Full disclosure, I brought a new item of clothing from a shop. That means I went 2 years and 4 months without buying a new piece of clothing. If you have been following along, everything […]
Me Made Wardrobe Part 2
I have been very busy in the sewing room of late, rustling up all sorts of goodies. Lets take a look shall we? First up we have a pull on pocketed dress made using some […]
Christmas gifts / Crochet / Handmade / Knitting / Lockdown Covid 19 / recycling / Sewing
Christmas Crafting
Now that Christmas is done and dusted for another year, I thought I would share with you some of the gifts I made. Most of these were made while we were under lockdown in April/May […]
Me made wardrobe
As well as adding to my wardrobe with thrifted items last year, I also did some sewing and knitting to give it a boost as well. I had a bit of time under our first […]
A Year of Thrift
Happy New Year! I thought I would give an update on my slow fashion journey throughout 2020. As mentioned in this post, I pledged not to buy any new clothes for another year after a […]
Peanut butter flavour experiment
Have you spied that Fix and Fogg have a new flavour out? Of course I had to try to recreate it at home. I haven’t tried their one but my version was pretty tasty so […]