Phew! I have emerged from mask-making purgatory to sew for myself again, just in time for Me Made May. As you may know if you read this blog regularly, I’m not really big into sewing for others unless it’s a gift that I’ve conceived of and chosen to make. I like to sew things that I want to sew. (This…
I know I said in a previous post that I was going to wait to share my Jasika blazer with you until I had made a matching set of shorts. But I don’t feel like making shorts right now and I’m trying to do better at sewing what I want, when I want. So you get to see the blazer…
I have to say, I’m really not an online class person. I got a Craftsy class a number of years ago after being gifted a 1-class credit, and I only ever watched the first part of the first video. The class was about how to make a copy of a garment you already owned without taking it apart, which was…
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)…
