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…
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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…
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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…
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For Halloween, I wanted to show you the most elaborate thing I have ever been involved in making. I use the word “involved” pretty loosely, because I was 14 and my mum pretty much did everything, in my recollection. I was in Scouts, and there is a yearly camp that involves live action role-playing (LARP-ing) in teams, travelling around and…
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I finished my Opium coat and I love it a lot! I had a crazy couple of weeks and didn’t get much sewing time, and was sort of losing my mind because of it. I carved out a chunk of time on the weekend and a bit more Monday and Tuesday in order to reclaim my sanity and finished this…
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