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A new favorite
I have been sewing up a storm lately, though you wouldn’t know it from my lack of posts about it. I guess it’s that thing about being too busy with life to stop and write about it. I took a bunch of...
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Gingham muslin fail(ish)
I bought this pattern (Butterick 6832) with very high hopes. It has all of the details I really love in a dress — buttons, cute collar, and a fitted skirt — but I was really bummed and confused when I...
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Sewing for Mrs. Deardorff
Posting pictures of mail order 4843 on facebook led to making another version of it for a fb friend. I generally don’t sew for profit as the amount of money I’d have to charge to make my work...
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Marian Martin 9014
I have been on a sewing tear this month but haven’t been able to get my act together to post anything until today. Maybe because I made a dress from a new pattern and I’m really happy with how it...
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Fashion Service 4936
I bought this pattern impulsively, under the influence of cold medicine late last night. I’m on the fence about it. It could be charming and seems innocuous enough, but now in the light of day and off...
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Dr. Frankestein had failures
Some days you just need to step away from the sewing machine and do something else. I had the day off work and planned to spend the whole day sewing. I think I might have even imagined I’d finish more...
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No bows allowed
Rather than fix my two fail projects, currently mocking me on hangers in the bedroom, I decided I needed a pick-me-up to restore my faith in my own sewing abilities, so I went for a new pattern Mail...
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Put a bird on it
Last weekend I found this awesome print at the fabric store. The photos don’t do the colors justice as it looks just like blue on blue, but the background is actually kind of a warm grey and the birds...
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And then it was a dress
I made a dress out of that delightful bird fabric this weekend. Honestly, I can decide if I love it or hate it. I ended up using Mail Order 4843, an old standby from last year, instead of the no bows...
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Staycation, all I ever wanted
A few weeks ago I got a letter from Allie in Human Resources telling me I had accumulated way over the legally allowed amount of vacation days and that I needed to start using some of them pronto. I...
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