This dress is a prime example of why I don’t have a sewing queue like so many people do. I definitely keep a good number of sewing plans swirling around in my brain (and in the form of fabric piles on my sewing table with patterns on top), but I don’t have a list because I want to be able…
This is the tale of a dress that started one place and ended up in a very different one. It got cut apart two different times before it reached its current form, which is a tiered maxi dress based on the Ogden cami that I happen to love! However, it started as an Epic Sewing Fail. Once upon a time,…
I’m back! I didn’t intentionally not post anything for two weeks, but at the same time, with everything that’s going on, it does feel a bit weird to post my face and my sewing even now. I wrote some stuff on Instagram if you want to read it, and here today I’m just going to write about this thing I…
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…
So, this all started off as an idea for a dress. I was going to use the In The Folds/Peppermint Peplum Top pattern (it’s free!) as the basis, but instead of the peplum I would do a longer, fuller, gathered skirt. I measured from the waist seam of the peplum top I’d already made from this pattern (see May 23)…
