Category: Women’s Sewing
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The Rear Window Dress: Petticoat and Skirt
(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 cultivating the fine art of patience as I meticulously separate a single seam—in either case…
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The Rear Window Dress: Planning and Design
(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 sure that I could use the pieces and put them back together again without too…
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Stretch Lace Stash-Busting and Totally Off-Topic Sherlock
I didn’t mean to procrastinate on my last bit of stash-busting, but then again, it would have been rather anticlimactic to have finished it up in September or something. Here’s today’s completed project, stretch lace Espresso Leggings. This is a nice, thick lace, but still a little open. Thick enough my legs feel nicely covered…
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Back to Stash-Busting
I’ve had a few stash-busting projects with pictures sitting around waiting to be posted for quite a while. These are more practical than exciting/inspiring, but still a good use of my stashed fabric, so they merit a post. First up is a hoodie for Guinevere. I succumbed to the lure of a McCall’s pattern sale…
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The Monthly Stitch: November Project
I feel like I’m coming down to the wire now with the projects I had wanted to complete in November, that is, the ones that included some type of theme/sew-along and therefore had deadlines not of the arbitrarily self-imposed variety. The Monthly Stitch had “Something From a Sewing Book” as their theme this month. Before…
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Flannel, Lace, and Nostalgia
The Sewcialists have a new blog and are doing monthly challenges now. November’s theme was Grunge sewing which sounded like fun. I’m always up for a reason to wear flannel and clunky boots. I remember grunge, but was pretty far removed from actually owning/wearing anything trendy at that time. The look having been inspired by…
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Breaking (Almost) All of the Rules
When I first started seeing Cake Red Velvet dresses made up, one of the first versions I saw was Susan’s striped version. I knew right then I wanted a striped version too, but I was also still in that mood where I wanted to acquire impossibly bright fabrics. I absolutely love what I ended up…
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From Red Velvet to Robin Hood
I’ve been working on some items for the Cake Patterns Red Velvet Sewalong. This is the Red Velvet Dress with a pair of Espresso Leggings. It’s been getting dark earlier and earlier, as it does when winter is coming. The house is somewhat reflective, but we were just barely in time to get some…
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I Shall Call Her “Mini-Me”
I thought it might be fun to make some matching dresses for Guinevere and I. No, absolutely not those kind of matching dresses. I made skater dresses. Mine has 3/4 sleeves and hers has long sleeves, but we were cold so we didn’t take our jackets off for pictures. We were too busy trying to…