I know I said in a previous post that I was going to wait to share my Jasika blazer with you until I had made a matching set of shorts. But I don’t feel like making shorts right now and I’m trying to do better at sewing what I want, when I want. So you get to see the blazer…
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’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…
Today, I bring you four versions of the same pattern! This is definitely one of my TNT (tried ‘n’ true) patterns, although it’s kind of unusual to fall into that category because it’s not a simple dress, or a t-shirt, or a pair of versatile pants. Instead, I submit to you: V8955. Yup. Not only is it a Big 4…
