My latest two finished projects are both repeats of a sort! And I'm pretty excited about both of them. This is my Shooting Star Bolero and my Cotton + Steel Arrow Dress. Oh yeah, if you missed that I went red and that photo surprised you, you can catch up on my hair color! Also we very recently painted our den and bedroom (FINALLY OMG) and hung up art, so welcome to a new place for me to take photos! I'll give you ... Read more »
Sewing
The flirty day dress class and Craftsy giveaway
My latest collaboration with Craftsy had me watching a class on how to sew up a particularly cute, vintage-inspired dress! The class is Sewing Vintage: The Flirty Day Dress with Laura Nash. Source: Copyright © Craftsy, Sewing Vintage: The Flirty Day Dress Laura Nash, by the way, is completely adorable. Source: Copyright © Craftsy, Sewing Vintage: The Flirty Day Dress If I wasn't already enjoying the class, I was ... Read more »
Sewing lingerie freebie with Christine Haynes and Craftsy
Hi everyone! Well, I'm winding up my posts with Craftsy this summer and just have a couple left after this one. But today, it's a little something special! I always knew Craftsy offered video classes, but I had never really investigated that they have other downloadables, too. And one of their FREE downloads is a PDF called Success with Sewing Lingerie (Three Tutorials to Make You Say Ooh La La!). It's written by none ... Read more »
So I accidentally bought a vintage sewing machine
A few weeks ago, we went over to our friends Ben and Elisa's house. As it happened, their neighborhood was having a big yard sale earlier in the day that we couldn't attend, but some people still were selling when we got to their house in the late afternoon. Now, a house near them had recently been sold, as the 90+ year old woman who lived there was moving into a nursing home. And Ben and Elisa knew the house hadn't ... Read more »
The cuckoo clock dress
This dress may well feature one of the pinnacles of amazing, kitschy novelty prints: cuckoo clocks. Ever since I got a cuckoo clock necklace from Classic Hardware, I've been obsessed with them. One day, this obsession took me on a hunt for cuckoo clock fabric. Surely, somewhere, there was fabric with cuckoo clocks on it, right? Well, the answer was yes! This fabric is from the Storybook Lane collection by Kelly ... Read more »
What have you ruined (or almost) lately?
This weekend, I worked on two sewing projects. The first involved a new-to-me dress pattern, and in the muslin stage I already knew it was going to need some serious work on the bodice (I did a successful full bust adjustment only to discover the rest of the bodice was going to be way too small). I didn't have it in me at that point, so I decided to shelve it until a later date. The second was a plain 6-gored skirt ... Read more »