Sewing and Knitting Vintage-Style
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Everyday Strawberry Shortcake
What could I possibly be looking at? My shoes, of course. I’ve had these shoes for a few years now, and while I’ve worn them with this or that (mainly black skirts or trousers), I’ve always wanted to have a dress that I could wear them with. Unfortunately, the shoes themselves, while quite awesome in…
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Miss Bossy Patterns Made Me Do It
I might have known that putting an Independent pattern company up against any other pattern option would be guaranteed to get me bossed into making up that independent company’s pattern. And thus, for my March Monthly Stitch project, I was bossed into making up By Hand London’s Elisalex dress. I made this up properly, starting with…
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Fun Dress and Practical Leggings
I’ve got a pretty new dress to show off. This is the Gunmetal dress from Lolita Patterns. It’s a knit dress, but different than any of the other knit dresses I’ve made. It’s not a difficult make, per se, but between multiple ruffles, D-rings, and rouching, it is on the fiddly side. My fabric…
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Practical Menswear
For years now I’ve wanted to make clothing for Pete. Not that he isn’t perfectly capable of buying his own clothing, but I like the idea of him wearing things I’ve made. I have made him things here and there, but never had been able to make something he really, really liked and would wear…
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When I’m not Sewing, I Might be Knitting
Everyone and their mothers have at some point made up an Andi Satterlund knitting pattern. I couldn’t be the only one left out, so I made Chuck. The yarn is Cascade 220 in peony heather, a gorgeously girly shade of pink. It goes oh, so, well with my “Prom Dress“, which being sleeveless and made…
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February Monthly Stitch Project: Mr. Smarty Pants
The Monthly Stitch theme for February was pants. Out of all the members of our household who need pants, Romeo is the one who needed them the most, so I made him so new jeans. Obviously I did not make the top part of his outfit, would you believe that the shirt and hoodie…
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My First Video and Pattern Pyramid Winner Revealed
February’s stash busting curating challenge is about showing stash fabrics some love. I decided this would be more fun to do in movie form, so made my first short film. I hope you enjoy it. The one main thing I learned about my fabric stash (other than what an amazingly diverse selection of things I’m…
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A Bit of Unselfish Sewing
The February Stash Busting Theme has to do with love. One of the options is to make something for someone you love. I finally got around to making a couple of things for my mother-in-law, Lucia. I’ve wanted to do this for her for a really long time. I don’t have pictures of her modeling,…
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Miss Bossy Patterns Wants to Know
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 I should sew up in March. I went through my stash, looking for a candidate…