Cari Homemaker

Tag: sewing

  • Emmaline Dress: Orange Picnic Version

      A few months ago, I went a little gingham-crazy and added several (ok, maybe 6)  gingham pieces to my fabric stash, including this orange colorway. It’s 100% cotton and fairly thick and stiff, but not so much that it feels like home decor fabric. Guinevere refers to gingham as “picnic fabric” (too many cartoons?)…

  • Tiny Boy Clothes

    I had the recent opportunity to try out two of the other Peek-a-Boo Patterns I recently acquired. I’m still really loving this pattern line. This time I used the Classic Chinos pattern and the Classic Polo pattern (both in size 6 months) to make up an outfit for our other friends who are expecting a baby this…

  • Simplicity 8488: Triple the Nightgowns (and a Minion Hat on the Side)

    I’m going to start this off with a relatively quick knitting project I recently finished. The “Minion Hat” for Ace. His most favorite of favorite movies is Despicable Me, so when he found out that there were instructions out there for a hat, he commenced asking me about making him one…and repeated his questioning liberally…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…