Author: Cari
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Romeo Sews! A U of O Apron
Now for something really exciting. It feels like long ago since I was making aprons for the kids. I had originally planned to make one for Romeo, but he didn’t want to match Ace. When he started complaining about being the only kid who didn’t have an apron, I told him to make his own. And…
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Quick Knit Project: Taylor Shrug
This is a quick knitting post for a quick-knit project*. The Taylor Shrug, specifically. Once I got the concept of what the thing I was making was supposed to look like, it was a very easy knit. The directions are minimal, which is not necessarily a bad thing, since much of the directions that are…
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Hummingbird Meets Pavlova: More Like Frosted Animal Cookies Than Cake
This is a Cake patterns mash-up ensemble. It’s the Hummingbird top with a Pavlova skirt. A really long Pavlova skirt. I added about ten inches to the length and cut the pieces on the fold so that it only has front/back seams instead of the usual four. This is one…
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Vintage Simplicity 8171: Sweet As Cherry Pie
I was thinking of giving this post the title “What the Vintage Fairy Puked Up”. It doesn’t sound nearly as appetizing as cherry pie, but considering how much of this dress fits the mainstream ideas of what a vintage dress should look like, it would be a pretty good description. It only lacks a…
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Emmaline Dress: Orange Picnic Version
A few months ago, I went a little gingham-crazy and added several (ok, maybe 6) gingham pieces to my fabric stash, including this orange colorway. It’s 100% cotton and fairly thick and stiff, but not so much that it feels like home decor fabric. Guinevere refers to gingham as “picnic fabric” (too many cartoons?)…
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Vogue 8890 and Burda 7918: Top Secret Project Revealed
How do I even begin to post on a project as monumental as the mystery project I finished last week. OK, maybe “finished” is a bit of an overstatement, but more on that later. Maybe it’s best to just let a picture do the explaining. Yes. My mystery project was a men’s suit. The…
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Tiny Boy Clothes
I had the recent opportunity to try out two of the other Peek-a-Boo Patterns I recently acquired. I’m still really loving this pattern line. This time I used the Classic Chinos pattern and the Classic Polo pattern (both in size 6 months) to make up an outfit for our other friends who are expecting a baby this…
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu: 2nd Edition
I’m still working on my mystery project (which has me saying weirdly obvious things out loud, such as “wow, 9 yards is the same as 27 feet”, just because it took something like 5 hours to cut out the pieces from the 9 yards of fashion fabric), but with two muslins needed for someone who doesn’t live…
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Hello Peek-A-Boo Patterns; Welcome to My Stash
I’m making some progress on my mystery project (I love that you are trying to guess what it is, but no one has guessed correctly yet). 2 muslins down and I think I’m ready to cut into the real fabric. In the meantime, we have friends having their first baby (a girl) soon. There was…