I’m back on the blog! I didn’t mean to take a break, but things were very busy at work and I think I had exerted a lot of story-telling power with my series of posts about my grandma’s quilt (1, 2, 3, 4 if you missed that). I ended up spending any sewing motivation I had on actually sewing and…
Sometimes I fall into the trap of thinking that there are types of people who wear certain items of clothing. Like I’ll think, “Oh, I’m not a pencil skirt person.” And I didn’t think that I was an Overalls Person. Maybe I got this impression from looking back at childhood photos of myself with pigtails, a big gap between my…
I’m finally back to fun personal sewing! My first project post-bridesmaid dress was this corduroy pinafore that I’d been wanting to make for a couple months. On the morning of the day I left for the wedding, I dropped my sewing machine off for a tune-up. It had been having tension issues and also just generally needed some help, and…
I made a pair of Lander shorts not too long ago, and finally got the fit right, so I wanted to try again on the pants. I made a pair of the pants out of cotton twill maybe a year ago, and got very overzealous on fit. I found them quite big in the waist (I saw from my old…
I returned to my usual selfish sewing ways yesterday with this corduroy Farrow dress! I finished up the very last of the bridesmaids dress sewing today (aside from perhaps a teeny bit of hand-sewing Thursday evening) and will hopefully post about the details of those on Saturday, which is the day of the wedding! Yesterday I finished this dress for…
