Slowly, ever so slowly, it feels I’m starting to get the hang of the beautiful community service that is the Minerva Makers team! After my last post, and after making friends with the fantastic platform that is this new website, I have been thinking of ways to improve upon the structure of my project posts... Continue Reading →
At one point of any maker's life it will come a time when you see yourself creating something you would have never thought belonged to you. Something so unusually other, so spectacularly out of your own sense of style and design that every step of the way you will be asking yourself "why". Yet, at... Continue Reading →
Knitting has been a big part of my creating output in the past couple of years, which is also testifies by the fact that it has slowly made more and more its way onto this blog. I might have mentioned before, but I have always loved knitting. It was what my mom gave me to... Continue Reading →
I don’t want to say this too loudly...but it looks like I might actually be getting the hang of this blogging thing!Giorgia - Feb 2020 circa Please insert very loud laugh here. This was the very first sentence of a blog post that sat in my drafts for the past two months, and which talks... Continue Reading →
If 2019 hectic lifestyle has severely affected my sewing production, my knitting has instead greatly benefitted! Besides the Diesis Jumper and the Vintertid Sweater, I have one more oversized jumper on the go and a little cropped sweater that I can’t wait to get started on. And whereas I’ve been terribly shy when it comes... Continue Reading →
Unbelievable and yet true: the second episode of my little tailoring escapade is actually up! As you might remember, after making my Francine Jacket, I had precious little left over fabric but the idea of a short-trousered suit had tickled my fancy and I could not let it go. I spent quite some time looking... Continue Reading →
FOREWORD I have a terrible, terrible backlog. And I use the word terrible with utmost intent, as my backlog is (and I’m quoting the Thesaurus) 1. distressing and severe; 2. horrible and/or extremely bad; 3. exciting terror and, lastly, 4. formidably great. I realised now some time ago that I have many, many more completed and undocumented projects than the ones that... Continue Reading →
Disclaimer: the pattern for this jumper has been gifted me in exchange of my review of the instructions, the yarn I purchased privately. All comments and views are entirely my own. There are no affiliate links on this page. The end of the year is inevitably a time of reflection and tallies. And this year I... Continue Reading →
This little piece started as a quick note in response to this post, but snowballed into a full-on essay on cellulose-based fabrics. Read on or save for later but do yourself a favour: stay informed! The basics Let's start with the basics, to make sure we're all on the same page. Here's a definition of sustainable: "the... Continue Reading →
I’VE MADE IT TO THE MINERVA MAKERS TEAM! There – it’s out. Phew! Keeping this piece of news in the past few weeks has felt very much like trying not to laugh out loud in public. You can read my first post, about my beloved Fifi Pyjamas, here. So many of my sewing crushes blog... Continue Reading →
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