elizabethmadethis

Elizabeth Farr is the writer behind the Elizabeth Made This blog where she shares helpful sewing tips, step by step sewing tutorials and videos to help you explore your creativity through sewing. She has written sewing Eguides and patterns, been a featured teacher at Rebecca Page's Sewing Summit and Jennifer Maker's Holiday Maker Fest and her work has appeared in Seamwork and Altered Couture magazines. She also created a line of refashioned garments for SEWN Denver. When her sewing machine isn't humming, she's playing and teaching violin, and hanging around a good strategic board game with her husband and 4 kids.

Wearing non maternity clothes in pregnancy

5 Comments / Handmade Style / By elizabethmadethis

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, …

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Altering non-maternity patterns for your pregnancy

4 Comments / Pattern hacking, Sew clothes / By elizabethmadethis

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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