I’m nearly done all the dresses for my uncle’s wedding, which is six days from today (August 25!). I had the final fitting for the final bridesmaid dress today, and had to cut ten inches off the hem and change the armhole shape a bit. I’ll get to those alterations in the next couple days. But the sixth dress I…
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I AM SO HAPPY WITH THIS DRESS! It’s one of those rare instances where I bought a fabric for a specific pattern and still actually wanted to use it for that purpose when I got around to making the dress a year later. I bought this Nani Iro cotton sateen at Patch more than a year ago, and I knew…
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I’ve realized in the past little while that I’m really not a skirt person. I love dresses, but somehow skirts always make me feel chopped in half and honestly a bit frumpy. But I AM a shorts person. And yet only own one pair of non-athletic shorts that I wear on a consistent basis. So I wanted to make some…
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So, this all started off as an idea for a dress. I was going to use the In The Folds/Peppermint Peplum Top pattern (it’s free!) as the basis, but instead of the peplum I would do a longer, fuller, gathered skirt. I measured from the waist seam of the peplum top I’d already made from this pattern (see May 23)…
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