Silk fabric from Mood, I made a dress from the majority, and had a little left over. I like to use every scrap, so I sewed it into a tube, found some wooden macrame beads left over from the 70′s (yes, I did do macrame in the 70′s!) and 5 minutes later had a cool necklace.
One of my recent sewing projects was this reversible tunic, out of merino. I took a very simple tunic shape and when sewing the neckline and hem, I twisted them by taking the seams out of alignment.
You would think that having knitted numerous horizontal openings in my Spoilt For Choice, Foliage Wrap and Creep garments I would have found the perfect method, but unfortunately not!
There are some great methods out there for neat, firm buttonholes (e.g. tulip buttonhole). But when stretch is an important factor for the versatility of the garment, and also keeping things simple so patterns are easy to knit, I have stuck to a basic two row method for Spoilt for Choice and one row method for Creep. In Foliage Wrap there are instructions for both!
Unfortunately the ends of the openings can sometimes appear untidy so my advice is to:
