Creating your own handmade style doesn’t have to be complicated. Get advice on how to sew a capsule wardrobe, play a little wardrobe sudoku, and find handmade wardrobe inspiration from Elizabeth Made This’ own personal sewing projects.
Click here to vote for your favorite sweater knit garment from this week’s challenge. This week’s Fabricista Fashion Challenge is “Same fabric, different look.” My fellow participants and I were given 3 yards of this very cool sweater knit fabric to create a garment with our own unique spin. I decided to take the …
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When Portia Lawrie of Makery announced that this years #Refashioners2016 challenge was denim, I couldn’t not participate in the community challenge. Between my catalog of my own jeans I’ve made and the wide variety of details collected on my Altered Denim board, it should be clear that when in comes to denim, I’m very serious …
This lace mixed media tank is one of the projects I’ve made in the past couple months post baby that I haven’t got around to writing about. It’s part refashion, part working with available materials, and a whole lotta pattern hacking in between. The inspiration for this one was this Anthropologie tank: I love how …
I totally knew this was going to happen. I knew that once I started bramaking, I’d love it. Of course, just like all other Jalie patterns I’ve made, Jalie 3131 has convinced me that all the inspirational loveliness that Andie puts out or the perseverance and problem solving that Gillian has gone through is a …
In July, I was lucky enough to be part of the testing group for Blank Slate Patterns’ new Denver Dress and Tunic. You can find the pattern as part of Pattern Anthology’s newest Unbiased Collection which also features the Adora dress and top by Go To Patterns, Diamond dress and top by Shwin Designs, and Gwen dress and …
I had hoped to have made up a Victory Patterns’ Lola dress for this week’s Sew Long Summer theme of Fabulous Fall, but the continuation of summer temperatures has made me less enthusiastic about french terry and has reminded me that Fall where I live goes something like this: In all of this, I’m left …
By this time of the summer, I’m really tired of the heat. I long for the fresh cool breeze of fall and the color changes in the trees and the crisp tailoring of a good jacket. But before I started making cooler weather clothes in the vain hope of trying to force the weather to …
Have you taken the metaphorical plunge into swimsuit sewing? How did it go? I have avoided sewing a swimsuit sewing the past several years for many reasons. Chief among those reasons being that I don’t really swim, I sunburn easily, and before now, I’ve not been able to figure out how to keep tiny people safe …
Hey all, Today I’m writing my first post over at the Monthly Stitch Collective for Indie Sew Month. I barely squeezed in my Blank Slate Pattern’s Catalina Dress with blockprinted jacks, but I did it. You can head on over to The Monthly Stitch to see my project there. Blockprinted Catalina Dress I started with Blank …
Have you completed a sewing dare? How has it gone? Did you learn anything new? My sewing dare is done! Gillian dared me to take on incorporating reverse applique into one of my garments. I present to you my: Bird Tessalation Dress I knew right away that I wanted to do something with Tilly and …
