I thought what I had made was a maxi dress until I looked up the definition: “A maxi dress is a floor or ankle length informal dress. Maxi dresses are formfitting at the top and loose flowing at the bottom, …
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When Mistakes Aren’t Always a Bad Thing
A good Monday morning to you all! How was the weekend? Mine could have been better, but there’s nothing I can do about it now, so on with the week. Today I do have something of the homemade sort to …
Hit and Miss
The pre-hunting season is starting over here. It is, once again, that time of the year when the guys in my life start spending more of their Sundays out in the field rather than here at the house. This weekend …
This Matches Everything!
Green sweater? Absolutely. Yellow tights? You got it. An orange undershirt? Sure, why not. This is the most versatile dress that I own, and I am absolutely in love with the pattern. Obviously, one could argue that a basic black …
Pattern Hacking a 2444
In case some of you are scratching your heads wondering what on earth the title of this post means, let me give you a clue… It involves sewing and the Simplicity 2444. Those of you who do sew, or obsessively …
A Completed Simplicity 2444
Hello, all you blog readers! If you stopped by today hoping to read about something that I have made, you are in luck. As you may have noticed, my blogging was a bit sparse last week. I have been busy, …
Yes, I Now Have Three of These Dresses
Because, why wouldn’t I have three of the same dress? Wouldn’t you if you were trying to perfect a pattern and thought maybe just maybe the third time would be the best one yet? Well, after making this dress THREE …
Between the Grass and the Grapes
Two Mondays in a row and I have no new clothes in my closet (except that black and white striped shirt that I bought last week. It was only three dollars, how could I pass it by?). Well, no new …
A Little Bit of Inspiration – of the Sewing Kind
It’s not Monday, and over here on the blog I am trying to make Mondays be about sewing projects and things that I have made/completed. I didn’t have anything to show for this week – being out of town last …
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