Category: Indie Pattern Companies

  • Cake Hummingbird: In the Wild

      Just in time to start in on the Red Velvet Cake Sewalong beginning tomorrow, I finally finished up the Hummingbird skirt from the last Cake Sewalong. If you were following the Flickr group for the Hummingbird sewalong, there was a picture of the top being worn by my dress-form (who should have a name,…

  • Corkscrew Cambie

      This lovely young lady is my friend Tori. She needed a dress on a tight schedule so she could attend a wedding. Obviously I jumped at the opportunity to revel in creating a confection of satin and chiffon. Actually I said “yes” to the dress-making before I knew exactly what she had in mind…

  • Anna Dress: The Jungle Cat Version

    Following my Banana Anna, I could hardly wait to make another version; this time in the longer length. As far as I can tell from the multiple versions of this dress I’m seeing getting made up by other sewcialists, the front split seems to be the most popular feature of this dress, but it wouldn’t…