Category: Women’s Sewing
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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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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…
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Victorian Bathing Beauty
I’m super-excited about this project, as you can probably tell from my smiles in these pictures. Pete was trying to get photos and got annoyed that I was spinning around, too giddy to hold still and pose for him. Also, I was throwing snowballs toward (but not at) Ace. Last weekend we had the…
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Plentiful Polka-dots, Piping Prosperity, and a Plus-Size Pattern Pyramid Giveaway
This post is over-due like the library books the kids had at home when we got snowed-in over the past weekend. I won a plus-size pattern pyramid from Susan at Moonthirty long enough ago that I’m a bit embarrassed to say exactly how long. You know how it is when you really, really want a…
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Cat Woman (and Kitten)
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 wait. Speaking of stash busting, I had to add to my stash last year when…
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Jungle January 2014: Hopefully not Giant Purple People Eaters
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, into the jungle. I couldn’t possibly skip Jungle January after the fun I had sewing…