Happy holidays, everyone! I made a bunch of things for gifts this December, and I’ll be sharing them with you over the next little while. The first up is definitely the craziest thing I made. It was for my sister, and I initially planned to make something different (which shall remain a secret because I might use it as a…
I went through all my upper body clothing last night, which meant trying on every shirt and dress I own. This all started because of a Christmas dress I’d planned to wear yesterday because my beginner bass class was playing in their first concert in the afternoon and I wanted to look festive. I laid the dress out the night…
When I read about the #sewfrosting challenge that Heather and Kelli are hosting (deadline is November 31!) I got really excited. It was just the excuse I needed to sew a particular fabric that I’ve had in my stash since 2016. In late August 2016, I went on an orchestra tour to South Korea. All our flights and such were…
The two dresses in today’s post were made nearly a year apart! The first one I made for Halloween 2017, and the second one I finished two days ago after wearing the original one to teach on Halloween this year and remembering how much I loved the pattern hack I did for the first one. The dresses are a mashup…
I have to say up front that I had a lot of reservations about this while I was making it. It’s not a usual shape for me, any kimono sleeved things I’ve made recently have been very Not Good on me, and I’d heard that it’s quite an oversized pattern. But while I took the photos for this post, it…
