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 finished my bridesmaid dress for my friend’s wedding last night! The wedding is a week from today so I’m simultaneously feeling like it got done a little down to the wire, but also smug that I have a week to spare. I’d already tested the fit on this pattern – the Deer & Doe Magnolia dress – previously and…
If I have learned nothing else through the making of my first two Deer & Doe Magnolia dresses, it’s that I have apparently abnormal boobs. Good lord. My list of fit adjustments on this pattern is out of control. And I’ll lay it all out for you below, but let’s rewind a bit first. My friend Jenn asked me to…
Hi all! I’ve been back from my trip to the west coast (of North America) for a couple weeks and finally got to have the sewing marathon I’d been craving! I’ve been doing so much travelling this summer (Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland) that I haven’t been able to dig into a project as much as I’d like to. I’ve been…
Today I bring you not one, but TWO dresses! Sort of. It’s really one dress, but it’s reversible! Which is totally magical. Two dresses in one! I’d been wanting to make the Sew Liberated Metamorphic dress for a while, ever since I saw a copy of it at Patch at least six months ago. But I had a bunch of…
