Tarting up a plain cardi...

I bought a standard navy cardigan from H&M but it was far too plain for me. I thought some white lace or ric rac would look great and lucky for me my local fabric shop had just enough lonely white jumbo ric rac left on a spool!

I pinned, pinned and pinned then I sewed the ric rac onto the cardi using really long stitches.

I went really slowly because I didn't want to stretch the fabric out under the trim.

I think it looks pretty good, and it only really too five minutes. 

I tried to do it on my old, cheap sewing machine but it just stretched the cardigan out and it looked rubbish. My new shiny Brother is the bees' knees!

I might have to do some more cardigan and jumper sewing!

Beccy

Hey did I show you this?

I’ve been spending a lot of time here these days:

https://www.facebook.com/beccyridsdel

If you’d like to pop by and say hello, you might see such things as this…

…this…

…and this…

…that’s mum meeting Grayson Perry last month with some of our students. I bought a new frock specially!

You also get some great rambling posts, many of which rival these for disparate nonsense but are much more brief and slightly more ceramics-centric (but not much).

Anyway, wave if you’re passing through!

Beccy