Autumn Plaid Circle Skirt

Wearing my DIY plaid circle skirt

If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might remember last year I made a few long skirts for winter and cooler weather. I love wearing these over thermal leggings, and so when I found some more heavy knit plaid fabric at the 2023 Grandmother’s Fabric Sale, I

I took the fabric, along with my pattern to the Maker Space to use their big tables (much nicer than using my living room floor!) and cut it out.  I also used their serger for the side and back seams, and to edge the hem.

Red on Red print Draped-Front Dress

Selfie wearing my new red draped front dress, showing off the matte PVC shoulders (with the same fabric on the back yoke)

When you find a pattern you love, that’s easy to make, gets compliments, is comfortable and flattering to wear…. well that’s one of the great things about being a sewist, right? The ability to make MORE of the garment in different fabrics and colours!

So yep… I’ve done it again, another draped-front dress.  This time in a soft t-shirt knit, with a black matte PVC for the shoulders and back yoke.

Dollar Store DIY – Skull Sconce

Light up skull added above one of my laser cut shelves on my gothic gallery wall

I really liked the filigree skulls they have at Dollarama for Halloween (even if they are plastic) but wasn’t sure if there was anything I could do with it for my ongoing gothic gallery wall – until I saw they also had remote-controlled puck lights.

This was a super fast and easy DIY – and  if you wanted one too (and your dollar store still has the skulls or something else cute like it) you could make it even easier by skipping a step or two if you want.

I started off just by playing with where I wanted the puck light to sit – knowing that the skull would be “looking down” at me – not flat against the wall – because the back of the skull isn’t flat!  I REALLY wanted the light to sit in his teeth area, however it was too wide to fit. I considered breaking it down to MAKE it fit… but then decided it would be ok for the puck light to sit in his forehead instead.

A flickering battery-operated tealight would be super cute in here too!

Miko Craft Dianne Back Pack – Rain Print

Rain print mini backpack

Previously I showed off designs made by MikoCraft – I used the Dianne backpack pattern to make a bag using a reptile PVC with moth embroidery and a second Dianne back pack using upcycled galaxy pixel print PVC

I liked the pattern so much, I made a third mini backpack using a fleece backed nylon fabric that I picked up at the 2023 Grandmother’s Fabric sale. The print looks like rain drops (and the fabric is water repellant)

Coffin shaped mirror (version one, matboard & skulls)

Skull embellished coffin-shaped mirror

Back in the summer, I went to Michael’s to see their Hallowe’en stuff, and liked, but didn’t get the coffin-shaped mirror they had. Of course that meant that a week later when I went back (with the coupon in my hand of course) … it was gone. (As was the Veiled Maiden bust, and a few weeks later a bunch of other cute stuff too…)

I looked online – their coffin mirror was sold out EVERYWHERE, and of course, being a mirror, even if they had it in another city, it wasn’t eligible to be shipped anyways. I looked online for other sellers of similar things, and there were a few that were cute (at 10x the price…) and a few that were way too big, and a few that were too kitchy.

So of course, I set out to make my own.