Sewing and Knitting Vintage-Style
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April Challis Chalet: Stash-Busting in Vibrant Color
As of the beginning of April, Pete and I have been married for 10 years. As exciting an anniversary milestone as that is, busy schedules threatened to interfere with a proper celebration of it. Over the past weekend, we finally managed to have a properly romantic getaway, leaving responsibilities at home properly delegated out to…
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Squeak! A Squirrel Circle Skirt
Over the weekend, our family went to an anniversary party for Pete’s parents. The theme was “Tiempo de Rock n Roll” and the dress code was “estile de las 50’s y 60’s.” The boys were all for just wearing their usual jeans with a belt and tucking in a plaid shirt, very Leave it to…
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Cake Patterns Pavlova: The Sequel
Here’s the other Pavlova set I made, just about as different as it could be from the Pleather version. The top is made from a cotton jersey that’s been sitting in my stash for well over 10 years. It had been cut into but there was just enough left to get this new top. That…
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The Pleather Pavlova
I’ve found a new favorite pattern. The Pavlova top and skirt from Cake Patterns. Seriously, it’s as though Steph C. drafted it just for me. I joined in on the sew-along and took some quick pics with a self-timer to post into the Flicker group on the second to last day of the sew-along. The sew-along…
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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 Style 4/2013 project 142B: The Security Guard Hat
In the middle of sewing up a few things I’d recently cut out, a new project hit the queue this week. Guinevere’s class had been working on a special project for the past few months, an “art gallery” created by the students, and it culminated in a day they invited parents in to see. Each…
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Costume Sewing: It’s About the Looks, Not the Longevity
With the new blog setup, I thought I’d cheat a little and write a quick bit about the sloppiest “sewing” project I’ve done lately, just to get a feel for how the new platform is set up. This barely qualifies as sewing, so you have that disclaimer up front. Every year the kids’ school participates,…
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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…