Apparently I’m in summer dress mode! (Although, I think I feel a quilt coming on.) I’d been wanting to make the Esteem dress from Cali Faye for quite a while and only just found a fabric that I felt would suit it. Her sample is made from something with a bit of stretch so I wanted to try the same,…
If you don’t know this yet, I’m a BIG Deer & Doe fan. The longer I’ve been seriously sewing my own clothes, the more I recognize that certain pattern companies will just resonate way more with me. The two ones that I nearly always love are Deer & Doe and Closet Case Patterns. When the new Deer & Doe patterns…
I was impatiently waiting for the arrival of Tessa Huff’s new book Icing on the Cake and had mistakenly thought that my local bookstore would have it in stock when it came out. But NO. So I had to wait a few extra days since I didn’t pre-order. It was so worth the wait! It’s so beautiful! And I’m very…
I’m back! I know it’s been a bit, and it’s because of my practice teaching term/the end of the academic term. On top of my own teaching job, I’m in the midst of five weeks of practice teaching doing high school band and strings combined with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar (I’ll be helping out with costumes on that…
