Some time ago, I spied the Daisy Lace tee at J. Crew. I liked the idea of it so much that I went to the store and tried it on and realized that I am not the type of person to shop at J. Crew as the thought of paying $68 for a tee shirt (even …
Every time I come across a shrunken sweater, I simultaneously die a little and do a happy dance. See, a sweater that gets destroyed in the wash is a little ball of upcycle potential. There’s so many things you can make with cast off sweaters from sweater hats to fingerless gloves, and even sweater shrugs. …
I’ve been thinking about this for a while, but as it’s a little lengthy to put in my probably already lengthy posts about any given pair of jeans, I thought I’d let it be it’s own little thing. When you’re making jeans, there’s a lot in play. You have lots of different feet you …
I finished my jeans for the Jeans Contest! I’m really pleased with how everything worked out. They were a lot of hard work, but I rather enjoyed switching among 6 different presser feet and no less than 7 different colors of thread and my serger despite it being a bit of a three ring circus. …
Christmas Stockings Like most of us garment sewists, I have mixed feelings about home dec projects. I figure if you’re going to be stuck looking at some pillow, you might as well do a good job of it, but once you delve into the world all the interesting details in garment sewing, it’s hard to …
I’m starting to understand my creative rhythm. I can’t keep churning out project after project for myself without losing a little bit of my sanity. Somewhere in there, I need to vary levels of difficulty and concentration to keep myself from burning out. This should be really no surprise to me, or that’s certainly the …
I’ve had this project done for a while but haven’t gotten around to posting about it. I think that’s mostly because it’s one of those not-terribly-interesting-but-wholly-useful projects that we all find necessary from time to time. I got to a point where I just needed to do something about my migrating ironing notions. They were …
When I went to go find something to wear for church this morning, I thought I’d pop on the Colorblocked Vogue 1027, a version of my Background Dress that I made in the spring. Guess what people–it not only still fits, it’s way comfy, and now that I think about it, it’s a perfect maternity dress (no, …
I must have been taken by the print of this fabric because it literally has the same feel as the gym shorts from my 6th grade P.E. class. Thankfully, this top does not come with the nasty athletic girls, the teasing, and the coach with the Rod Stewart spiky mullet (no lie–Rod Stewart was her hero) that …
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