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April Round-Up All the tops
Hi! Soo, I’ve made a few tops lately and I’ve posted them to Instagram, why? I was on vacation and in vacation prep mode and I forgot to write my blog posts. I’m back from vacation and trying to catch up. I got to see a sew friend while in Barbados and she took me to the fabric stores! How cool is that? I only purchased a piece of Ankara that my husband has taken for himself, guess I’ll be making him a tunic, sooner, rather than later. I also purchased a scuba knit boarder print so I’ll show you these pieces when I sew them up. I didn’t have…
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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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November Round Up Part 2: Butterick 6425 and McCalls 7698
Here are the two patterns I made for myself this month, Butterick 6425 and McCall’s 7698. I did a lot of planning for December and I had a lot of family events in November so I was busy, but not with sewing for me. I have lots of personalized holiday gifts for December, a coat/cape, two party dresses, a sweater dress, and some tops/sweaters. I hope to get them all done with minimal stress, I will write a blog post in the next two months outlining how I pan my makes. Soo, let’s start off with the robe: Pattern Description: McCalls 7698 Close fitting through bust romper and jumpsuit have…
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November Round up Part 1
I originally named these posts “Pattern remakes”, but what happens when you don’t remake anything? LOL you just say, hey, this is what I did this month! I’ve been very, very busy in November and I don’t think it’s going to slow down in December. In November, I did a bunch of unselfish sewing that I didn’t blog about, so let’s talk about that today. I didn’t make myself a lot, but I was very productive. What happened in November… I became official ya’ll, I joined the American Sewing Guild! I think that makes me official, right? The American sewing guild (ASG) is ” an organization of sewing enthusiasts who…
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Pattern Remakes- October Edition
One of my goals has been to go back through my “wearable muslins” and remake them. What’s a muslin and when should you do one? Check this blog post out from Tilly and the Buttons. I spend quite a bit of time making adjustments and it seems like such a waste to only make them once. In comes the pattern round up, I’m going to consolidate all my remakes from Instagram, Facebook and my camera roll. I think there’s value in remakes and the styling of what you make so you get more bang for your buck with your pattern and garments. I think I’ll try this once a month,…
