Today I’m bringing you some selfless sewing! My friend Amanda’s birthday was in late May and I wanted to make her a closet staple that she would be able to wear all the time. Over the past few years she has lost a significant amount of weight and has had to do multiple closet purges because of it. So I…
Today I bring you not one, but TWO dresses! Sort of. It’s really one dress, but it’s reversible! Which is totally magical. Two dresses in one! I’d been wanting to make the Sew Liberated Metamorphic dress for a while, ever since I saw a copy of it at Patch at least six months ago. But I had a bunch of…
We all made it to the end of Me Made May! I have to say, I struggled this year. Last May the weather in Nova Scotia was really nice, but this year it has sucked. Majorly. Which means that it became very clear that I have a lot of me made dresses but not a lot of separates that I…
I think it’s time to officially give the Tessuti Alice top/dress its place in my tried ‘n’ true hall of fame. I’ve made three versions of the top (all in Nani Iro double gauze, actually), but until Sunday had never tried the dress version. The top and dress use the same front and back yoke pieces, as well as the…
We’re almost halfway into Me Made May, and I’m keeping on track with my pledge so far! I pledged to wear at least one item of me-made clothing every day, and to not buy any new fabric. This has lead to a few developments! First of all, I was overwhelmed with the state of my sewing zone and FINALLY got…
