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Rayon Pensée Dress

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…
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Bidding (Hopefully Temporary) Adieu to Garments

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…
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Emery + Belladone Dress Mashup

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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Purple & Polka Dotted Opium Coat

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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Chambray Aubépine Dress (For My Mum!)

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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