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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 21h

Everyone* deserves someone who looks at them the way our cats look at our dinner. *Nearly everyone 🐱🇳🇿

A tabby cat lying on the back of the couch, staring at a plate of omelette

A silver tabby cat staring at another omelette

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 03/10/2026

Hahaha I think possibly stubbornness masquerading as patience!

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 03/10/2026

Doing a #garmentsewing test at the moment, two very cool patterns that will both I think have a place in my wardrobe long term. But jeeeeeez spaghetti straps?!

4 spaghetti straps, 2 pink and 2 grey. They have been painstakingly turned with a bodkin that is also visible.

A scrunchy seam with spaghetti straps popping out the top. When they're pulled tight the fabric either side of the seam scrunches

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 30/09/2026

Finished the third Dungeon Crawler Carl, nearly finished Emma M Lion volume 3. And I've got Dirty Work and a royal scandal type book waiting for me (the royal scandal one is an assignment from my elderly mate at the park haha)

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 30/09/2026

We frequently carry on down the creek at the moment, to check on Mrs Goose from the park (she seems to have made her way down in search of love and got stranded (insert 'Where the hell is my Husband' here). Yestrday we also found a PENGUIN (who was collected by the colony). And ducklings. #nzbirds

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 30/09/2026

Thank you! They're actually quite similar to the #sewhouse7oxbowpants, which I also had stashed and used the waistband of. Of the two, I would recommend the Oxbows as a better baseline pre adjustment fit. I wish I'd realised how similar they were earlier on haha. Still a good outcome.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 28/09/2026

Thank you! Definitely extra extra 😂

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 28/09/2026

Thank you! I'm very pleased, I was desperate to use the fabric to maximal effect haha

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 28/09/2026

Oh boy oh boy I've made the most extra pair of jeans I've ever owned #garmentsewing These are made in Liberty denim and they're mostly the #truebiaslanderpants, but with the curved waistband from #sewhouse7oxbowpants. Also I adjusted the hell out of them, they have a pretty challenging crotch.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 28/09/2026

Buy my scraps! I've turned them into gorgeous tags.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 26/09/2026

Hahaha surprise flat felled seams ARE appalling tbh. I'm about to voluntarily do them on a pair of jeans, I may regret this 😂😂

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 26/09/2026

#garmentsewing project coming up... #truebiaslanderpants. This is Liberty denim 💀💀 I adjusted the absolute daylights out of this pattern and I'm looking forward to this pair of jeans. I think I'm even mentally committing to flat felling the seams ...

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 26/09/2026

Thank you! I honestly love doing those even though they're more steps than I'd like 😂

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 25/09/2026

Detail and inside pictures! I love making shirts 👀 collars and plackets and cuffs, oh my (no cuff on this iteration though). This is such nice soft cotton. Flat felled and fully finished throughout. Handmade Liberty tag. #garmentsewing

Tag made of abstract leaf print fabric in purple and cream, sewn into a white+purple shirt collar. KF 26 written on it.

Short sleeve shirt hangs, inside out. It has fully enclosed sleeve and side seams. Collar and button placket are visible

The back, inside out, you can see the yoke which cuts across the high shoulder. And the flat felled sleeve seam and double fold hem.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 22/09/2026

Here's another of my #garmentsewing outfit videos. Things I've been wearing in September. We're coming into spring in NZ now and yeeeeeah It's very evident I have seasonal faves 😂 Loafs of #greenstyle, #sewhouse7 and #fibremood featuring this month.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 21/09/2026

Today I might just cut out my final Landers in this Liberty denim. This was a real Find at the Fabricabrac, and so funny because I'd been eyeing up that denim when it was for sale retail. I managed to talk myself out of it then regretted it 😂 got it in the end! #truebiaslanderpants #garmentsewing

This photographs a lot redder than it is. It's a warm, bright orange 🍊. It also has multicoloured splatter type speckles.

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Eddie @eddie.co.nz · 21/09/2026

Don Merton was responsible for saving the Chatham Island black robin from extinction in the 1980s. “Rare birds can’t wait for the economy to pick up.” #BOTY #AotearoaBirds 🇳🇿🪶

nzgeo.com

One of a rare breed

In fact, Don Merton is the only one of his kind. As a senior conservation officer for the Directorate of Protected Ecosystems and Species, he is New Zealand's sole officer working full-time on endange...

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 21/09/2026

I had this fun, wafty sort of macrame mesh that I'd picked up at the destash sale. And I've had the idea stuck in my head about a fashiony tabard. The #fibremoodhodatop filled the brief pretty well. I went rogue on the instructions and bound the whole thing with FOE. Surprisingly little fuss.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 20/09/2026

Thank you! Next on list is a kind of lacy macrame tabard layer that will slot in well too 👀

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 20/09/2026

I finally got on the bandwagon and sewed up a #sewhouse7remyraglan. With the gathered sleeves. This is lovely lightweight cotton and will do nicely for summer! It didn't take as much fabric as expected, even with the extra big sleeves. Only 1.8m on narrow loom cotton.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 18/09/2026

The other thing I have been turning Liberty scraps into: scent sachets. Very low waste if you're open to irregular shapes. Long life laundry scent beads in them, you know the ones that are pretty rough on your washing machine but smell outrageously good 👀 scrap busting woo! #sewing

4 scent sachets, all different random vaguely trapezoidal shapes. They're made of liberty poplin with an abstract leaf print and they're purple black and cream. They have purple hanging ribbons. They're laying on a pile of scraps of a liberty lawn called Crescendo. It's blue with flying swans on it.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 17/09/2026

I've been enjoying cutting my tiniest liberty scraps into very cute tags. I do a batch up every so often between projects, then I've got a nice stack to sew in, no muss no fuss #garmentsewing

18 tags and 2 cardboard templates for this tags. Some of the tags are a purple, black,cream abstract leaf print and some are white with a tiny leaf print. Some are small landscape format tags and some are tall portrait ones.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 16/09/2026

That fabric is gorgeous! I have this pattern, but have yet to make it. 👀 I bet it's going to be sooo good.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 16/09/2026

Thank you! I love wearing it. I want a black or other dark colour double gauze one next, very easy to put in an outfit!

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 16/09/2026

I made up another #patternemporiumonrepeat woven tee. I had only a short length of this fabric and I was delighted to get this out of 1.1m. I could have done longer sleeves but I wanted to try the short. It really feels like a tshirt, I love it. And such a pleasant speedy sew #garmentsewing

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 15/09/2026

I've picked up the beginnings of two new series both with huge loud fandoms but very very different lol.. The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, and Dungeon Crawler Carl. I'm enjoying both so far

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 11/09/2026

Beloved of civic building soft furnishings the world over 😂

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 10/09/2026

I made up the new #patternemporiumonrepeat woven tee. This is a toile (hence this oddball fabric.. reminds me of 90s bus seat covers) which had a few purposes. Fit, ofc, but also I tried a full bicep adjustment. I would say reasonably successful. I love the boatneck. I want armscye one size bigger.

In wearing a stripey top. It's tshirt shaped with a boatneck, cutting wide and high over my shoulders, and 3/4 sleeves. The print is abstract stripes and the colour palette is sort of brutalist disco.

Hands by my sides. This has a one inch hem on sleeves and bodice. Bodice also has a little slit in each side seam and I like the method used for this, though I'll mod my next one to have a double fold hem.

Side view. I'm very happy with the amount of ease in my sleeve. The length is just north of my wrist.

The back. This neckline is faced btw. I also quite like the method of doing the facings. You sew them onto front and back separately and then cleverly fold them together when you sew the shoulder seam.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/09/2026

Sounds lovely! There's a ceramicist on Instagram who makes these enormous round rolling instruments. So neat

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/09/2026

Okay amazing!! I was obsessed with the duck callers when I was a kid. A ceramic one is soooo neat

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/09/2026

The male and female calls are DEFINITELY at different parties too 😂

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/09/2026

Little mum 🥹🥹 I think she's been laying since about Aug 13 or maybe a bit earlier! I'm reasonably sure that we're closer to the hatch end of incubation (31 days) so I'm also wondering if they have their chicks eat some downy feathers when they're wee for digestive purposes, like grebes.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 09/09/2026

Love this! Love the big flowers. I always stubbornly wear my newly made summer dresses into autumn 😅 also love a fleece stocking.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 08/09/2026

Here's a lovely Ngaire video (to convince you to vote pūtangitangi!). She was going hard on ruffling up her feathers this morning. Once she was done she flew back to the nest on the island. Maybe nest lining? +She's started making a sweet chirpy new sound. Māmā voice? Vote: www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 07/09/2026

Here's a very speedy run down of what I did with 5m or so of viscose knit. I use this for base layers so tshirts and leggings, oh and undies. I have a wee bit more. Maybe more undies, maybe boxers. #garmentsewing

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 07/09/2026

Yay! Thank you! (Which as far as I can tell in pūtangitangi language is a gentle meep and a tail wag)

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 07/09/2026

This is your first (mute me if you have to 😅) reminder to vote for Ngaire and Lefty, a.k.a. pūtangitangi/ paradise shelducks #birdoftheyear2026 - they are the absolute biggest personalities and unsung heroes in Aotearoa. Overseas friends, you can vote too! A BIRD ELECTION. www.birdoftheyear.org.nz

Ngaire, a chestnut coloured shelduck with white head, and Lefty, a black shelduck with chestnut tail feathers, are standing amongst fallen orange leaves and sparse agapanthus. There's a food box next to Ngaire and a pond in the background.

Lefty, a black shelduck, is floating in a pond. He's contrasted in a bright white reflection with circular ripples around him and he's lifting his bill up taking a drink. You can see the ghosts of stones below him, but the water is murky.

Ngaire stands on a brilliant green lawn, weight on her left foot. She's looking to the left, showing her full outer selection of wing feathers which range from white through bottle green and chestnut, all the way to charcoal and black.

Here's a screenshot of bird of the year showing the pūtangitangi candidate. Who ought to be your number one, but if you're repping another lovely manu Ngaire is happy to accept second 😇 she's so humble.

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 03/09/2026

Oooooh yes they won't be far off! What an exciting time of year 🤩

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 03/09/2026

I got: new boots The cats got: new boot box 🐱🇳🇿

Toni, a silver tabby cat, sits in a shoebox with the lid up. She's gazing vaguely towards the camera.

Now she's looking over to the left side of the frame.

Twiggy, a black highlight tabby/white ruff cat sits in the same box. She has her eyes closed and face tilted as if into the warm sunlight. In fact she's just really enjoying her new box

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 02/09/2026

Okay so we want some duckling content, right? First ducklings at the park!! And Ngaire and Lefty are definitely nesting, possibly since as early as Aug 13, so their little cutie humbugs aren't far off. Two of the Goldie sisters AWOL too so I suspect we might have little yellow babes coming. 🪶🇳🇿

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Kelsy - formerly Faiako @kelsy.co.nz · 02/09/2026

Haha thank you! I was planning to just finish and take to the op shop but I fear I'm getting attached 👀 I'm making the final copy out of the all time coolest denim I've ever seen and I'm like do I need two flamboyant pairs of these? Honestly, maybe

BRIGHT! ORANGE! Denim with Pollocky paint speckle print

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