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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I’m writing this post from back in Nova Scotia, where it is pretty misty and grey out. It’s been kind of weird having it be so humid and warm, since I left right around the time that actual summer weather was starting and came from a place that was definitely not as warm! My flight yesterday didn’t leave until the…
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