Today I’m bringing you some selfless sewing! My friend Amanda’s birthday was in late May and I wanted to make her a closet staple that she would be able to wear all the time. Over the past few years she has lost a significant amount of weight and has had to do multiple closet purges because of it. So I…
We all made it to the end of Me Made May! I have to say, I struggled this year. Last May the weather in Nova Scotia was really nice, but this year it has sucked. Majorly. Which means that it became very clear that I have a lot of me made dresses but not a lot of separates that I…
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’m back! I know it’s been a bit, and it’s because of my practice teaching term/the end of the academic term. On top of my own teaching job, I’m in the midst of five weeks of practice teaching doing high school band and strings combined with a production of Jesus Christ Superstar (I’ll be helping out with costumes on that…
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…
