If you don’t know this yet, I’m a BIG Deer & Doe fan. The longer I’ve been seriously sewing my own clothes, the more I recognize that certain pattern companies will just resonate way more with me. The two ones that I nearly always love are Deer & Doe and Closet Case Patterns. When the new Deer & Doe patterns…
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…
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 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…
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…
