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Review: Sew Expo 2016
I just got home from Sew Expo last night and thought it would be a good idea to write up a bit of a review of my weekend. The last time I went to Sew Expo, I think was in 2001. After I got married and had kids, I didn’t feel like I could leave…
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Not a Space Suit
I’ve got a project on the brain. Not just any old project either…one of those intense ones. Actually, it started off intense and has somehow grown into something even more. I’m not making a space suit (this time), this project will be just a little less…shiny than a space suit. The usual practice, I’ve noticed,…
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April Challis Sewalong
This is just a quick post. (It has to be quick or I’ll never meet the Pavlova sew-along deadline) Did you see Lady Katza’s spectacular idea for April? A sew-along in challis. It is basically the perfect transitional season fabric. I have at least 5 pieces of challis in my stash that I can think…
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Burda 9781: Houndstooth Jacket for Romeo
A little bit ago (OK, the first of January) I showed off some close-ups of pockets and notched lapel collar that I was working on at that time. This week I finally made myself finish that project up. It really didn’t take too long, not nearly as long as I thought it would take, just a…
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Perfect Pink Party Dress
It was an interesting predicament to be in. I had an actual occasion, a reason to dress up, and I just could not for the life of me get inspired to make a dress. The plan, hatched over a year ago, was to go with a couple of my sisters and my daughter for an…
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Illness Boosts Knitting Output, Slows Sewing to a Crawl
My sewing has been minimal, at best, for the last week. Sick with a random upper respiratory virus, my time has been mainly spent in bed when not involved in the absolute necessary activities of life (work, sleep, feeding children). Over the weekend, I watched what should have been about 3 month’s worth of movies.…
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McCalls 6225: So. Much. Pink. Fuzziness.
Just when I was really starting to get some momentum going with building my own wardrobe, I looked down and realized that Guinevere had a gaping wardrobe hole. Her bathrobe, a ready-to-wear option we had picked up at Target some time ago, was still too big in the shoulders, but ever so much too short…
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Vintage Simplicity 3315: Modern Stash-busting Meets Mid-Century Slenderette
I knew the Stashbusting sew-along theme for January had been focused on sewing up itty-bitty pieces, but I also knew that if 2013 was going to be the year of the stash-bust, it meant doing something with a very special piece of fabric right out of the gate. You know the kind of fabric I…
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Vintage 1967: Simplicity 7147 Back in the Zone
I’ve done a re-do for the photos of my vintage Simplicity 7147 and I like these much better. So as not to have a disappointed little girl worried that she’d been fired forever as a photographer, we told Guinevere she could do a “training session” on photo-taking for Daddy. Her first advice to him was…