It’s something you hear all the time, but I definitely can’t believe 2019 is almost over! I did a lot of sewing for the blog and my YouTube, but I did manage to sew some other things for myself. And can I say I totally needed 2 like yesterday! Liberty henley with pearl snaps It […]
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I can’t believe August is already nearly over! It’s been a busy month with travel and getting back to school and my teaching schedule and the start of soccer. This month I’ve been finishing up projects m my and doing a few quick projects. Here’s what I’ve been sewing in August 2019. My sewing August
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I’ve been shooting for writing a lot of helpful to other sewist types of posts lately. That’s where I want to go for Elizabeth Made This over time, but I thought you might be curious about what I’m sewing personally too occasionally. So here’s what I’m sewing in July 2019. Sassy denim skirt refashion I’m
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It’s always a little intimidating to start thinking of how I’m going to go after my own challenge, and this year’s Day and Night Dress Challenge has been no different. For this year’s twist, I found a neglected ponte dress and went on a color adventure. Wearing a sleeveless dress year round A sleeveless dress
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The light was filmy, and the woods around me positively technicolor. Elaborate spider webs lay untouched and moss grew wild. I half expected a gnome to jump out and yell, gotcha. It was not the place that I first imagined my Sew Over It Penny dress in this rather tropical Lady McElroy fabric to take
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There’s been so much feet dragging with my Make 9 this year, and the Sew Over It Lulu dress has been partly to blame. I saw the lack of darts and waist shaping and thought there was no chance it’d work on my pear shaped self. Guess what? I was totally wrong. Sew Over It
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Solid fabric is a blank canvas. I can think of few projects that illustrate this better than my new yarn embroidered coat. A skein of wool yarn and some patience transformed this plain ivory sweater fleece into something that I’m really excited about! elizabethmadethisElizabeth Farr is the writer behind the Elizabeth Made This blog where
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Ever since my husband and I started watching Doctor Who 3 years back, we’ve kicked around the idea of cosplay. Though we’ve enjoyed all the Doctors and companions, Rose and the 10th Doctor have easily been our favorites. Maybe it’s the fact that we both have similarish coloring to Billie Piper and David Tennant that
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Summer still lingers here so I’m catching up on writing up the last of my summer projects before I move on into my fall makes. Earlier in the summer, I picked up a few t-shirts at the thrift store for refashions. One of them, you already saw me re-make in my Split Flutter Sleeve hack
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I’m not much of a beachgoer. Blame it on not living anywhere near a beach. But also, I can blame it on my very sunburn prone skin. Summer is often when I either hide from the sun or resign myself to painting myself with enough sunscreen to pass for a layer of primer on a
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