Sewing, Knitting and Other Domestic Duties
Next month the theme over at The Monthly Stitch is sewing up stashed patterns. They decided that was too easy a theme, so they added a twist. I need to take a poll to decide which pattern from my stash…
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First things first. I got so caught up in January Jungliciousness that I omitted mentioning in my last post that I had a recent guest-post about stash busting over on Tumbleweeds in the Wind. Go ahead, check it out. I’ll…
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Hi there. I hope you’ve been enjoying Aunty Laura’s recent posts about her refashion take on the iconic Rear Window Dress. I’m going to interrupt the flow a little and take things in an entirely different direction, to be specific,…
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(You can read all posts about the Rear Window Dress by Aunty Laura.) Pulling It Apart Usually deconstruction is a release for me. I am either chopping off panels from garments willy-nilly as I let out some energy or am…
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(You can read all posts about the Rear Window Dress.) First things first. I needed to take stock of what I had and what I needed. I thought it might be best to take the dress apart first, to make…
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Here it is. The last stash busting project of the year, number 25 of 25. And what would a blog post be without pictures or conversation? I’ll begin at the beginning and when I come to the end, I’ll stop….
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This is a project that was well over a year in the making. It started with picking up the fabric at a thrift store. It’s a nice thick wool. It didn’t have a tag on it to indicate where…
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This month’s challenge on The Monthly Stitch was vintage patterns. It was the perfect reason to finally get to a dress I’ve been planning to make for almost a year now. The pattern is Advance 8211, a pattern so…
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I suspect that the real reason I wasn’t as excited by Guinevere’s Pink Cherry Dress as I probably should have been was this dress right here which I had cut out at the same time. If you think it looks…
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