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Pattern review: New Look 6411
I’ve been wanting to make this dress since I picked the pattern up a few months ago, my idea was to make this in a ponte knit, the zippers caught my eye. I didn’t realize the potential of this dress as a basic design that can be modified, it was all in the zippers for me. The dress doesn’t have a lot of shaping through the waist but it doesn’t have weird drag lines either so it turned out great. I really like the way it looks, the snake print is different and the zippers give a bit of edge. My goal was to work on more separates, but I’m…
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Wide legged pants with a surprise McCalls 7547
I love a little surprise, and I have one with these pants. One of my goals for 2018 is to make pants without elastic at the waist. Now, there’s nothing wrong with pull on pants, but I want to learn how to fit trousers and jeans too. Here’s one of the pants fitting resources I used from Closet Case Patterns. I made these at the end of January and I was only sewing from my stash when I made these so I had to improvise. I don’t have much bottom weight fabric in my stash and no denim, I did have piece of stretch denim so I used this. I’m…
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Work out gear McCalls 7482
The start of the New Year and getting healthy is on a lot of people’s mind. It’s on my mind and although I’ve made active wear before, you can see the post here, I wanted to try it again. I’m pretty comfortable when exercising cotton t-shirt and compression leggings. I really like to get outside, the fresh air is always nice. When it gets cold, I like a jacket to throw on over my work out clothes, something that I don’t mind sweating in. About the fabric, I’ve used the black compression knit before here and the scuba knit is a remnant from this dress. I’m sewing from my stash…
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Cashmerette Appleton Review and Help With My Coffee Dress
I’m very surprised I haven’t made this dress yet! In my defense, I have so many patterns and I love them all, I do forget what I have until I get inspired and start sifting through the pattern bin. This is a possible contender for my day/coffee dress for the Day and night Dress Challenge hosted by Elizabeth Made this. I love wrap dresses, well dresses period and I really enjoy making them. I’ve learned a lot about fitting and fabric so I hope my dresses will get more wear an not end up in the donate pile. I purchased a few yards of ITY before Hancock’s closed, because ITY…
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Stash busting and sewing plans
Hi ya’ll, have you missed me? I’ve been busy sewing, but I usually only post my finished garments to the blog. I think I’m going to change that, I’m not sure if people want to see the process or not, but I want to share it so… I have a few things I’m doing over the next few months, I have the monthly challenges over at Sew Much talent FB group, The Curvy Sewing Collective is doing bi- monthly challenges, Gillian with crafting a rainbow is hosting a Cashmerette sewing challenge, sew your view on IG, Burda challenge, and the day and night challenge with Elizabeth Made this are on…
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Top 5 Highlights 2017
Wow, It’s been an amazing sewing year! Gillian at Crafting A Rainbow has hosted Top 5 for a few years and I just saw it on Instagram. I thought, what a fun way to highlight my top 5 sewing makes. I did the #bestnine on Instagram as that’s based on likes, but for my top 5, I’ll based that on blog post views. As I reflect on 2017 looking forward to 2018 I know there are a few things I want to learn, and some things I want to do so, let’s jump right in! Hits: Everyone loves a pattern remake. I think this is how things become tried and…
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DIY Helmut Lang Inspired sweatshirt McCalls 7688
Hi there! This is the last garment of the year for me so I thought, why not make it twice? This pattern was picked as a part of an Instagram monthly challenge #Sewyourview with @thatsewmonica and @feesewcrafty. I don’t know how I’m gonna follow them next year if I go on a pattern fast, I think I need to slow down on the patterns! I have way too many, I think I’m at the point where I need to start modifying some of these patterns, but then when they’re a dollar why modify? I still have to store the modified version unless I modify it on the fabric? I don’t…
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DIY Toaster Sweater Simplicity 8529
I really like this sweater, it’s modern and very trendy. It’s also plus when you get an awesome Indie Pattern from a Big 4 pattern company at the sale price. This pattern is a little different from Sew House Seven toaster sweater #2, Simplicity’s pattern has a dropped shoulder. I wasn’t sure if I liked the dropped shoulder but I think for the oversized fit of this top, it works, I think raglan sleeves work better for me. The Simplicity pattern didn’t offer the raglan sleeve option, but I’m OK with the overall style. In any event, you get the same over all effect and everyone is sewing this up…
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Sew the Look: DIY Burberry Inspired Cape McCalls 7664
I had a gap in my wardrobe, I needed a casual coat/cape that was good for cool weather and would work for times when I need to run from the car to the house/building. I don’t have a lot of casual coats, but I have tons of jackets, so I knew I wanted something a little heavier than my jackets but not as heavy as my Wool coat. I really like camo, so when I saw the fabric in the 50% of section of Joann’s I got a few yards with the intent of making a similar cape to this Burberry inspired cape. I thought this was a good sew…
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DIY Great Gatsby Dress and Cape
What’s with the getup? I went to a Great Gatsby themed birthday party and let me tell you it was fabulous. The decorations, outfits, music and food were awesome. The theme of the party was Great Gatsby, but we didn’t drink bathtub brew and we didn’t swing, but we did dance a lot! This was a Juke Joint so it was dark, I tried my best with the pictures. When deciding what to wear, I knew I wanted to make my outfit and I didn’t want a costume. I knew it had to be quick, easy and something I could wear again. On my search for the inspiration, I did…
