I recently shipped off my swap package to the lovely Karen, Sew Peachey as part of the Sewing Room Swap on Flickr. I shared about the wall hanging that I made for her a while back, Stacked Bowls. That was my small item for the swap. My big item had me second guessing myself and […]
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A couple of weeks ago I made this fabulous paper pieced block designed by Penny (Sewtakeahike) and Kerry (verykerryberry) of the design team Sew-ichigo. And can I just say that this is awesome?! Because it is. I’ve loved this pattern from the moment Kerry started posting sneak peaks of her version on Instagram earlier this
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In my ongoing goal to make clothing again, I decided to tackle the very popular Tova top by Wiksten. There is always a risk when you take on a “popular” pattern that you are just following the crowd…the blind leading the blind, so to speak. But I’ve seen enough photos of this particular top that
One of the things I’m participating in right now is a swap called the Sewing Room Swap over on Flickr. I think I’ve mentioned it before here. I can’t reveal my partner just yet because it’s all private hush hush until they get their complete package. But I thought I would show you one of
The balloon dress. A match made in heaven between a Little Lisette pattern for Simplicity and a Sarah Jane print from Children at Play. It all started with a scrap pack from Hawthorne threads I ordered a few months back. I ended up a bunch of skinny scraps of this Children at Play print. I
I’m so excited to finally be writing this post about a project from Ayumi’s new book, Patchwork Please. I’m just so tickled for her to have this book out and be part of the sew along. I remember when she announced she had a book coming and I was itching to get my hands on
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I don’t know about the rest of you, but here in upper Indiana, we’ve had a VERY late spring. It’s FINALLY gotten warmer and the trees are flowering. And that means that I’ve been spending a bit more time outdoors…weeding. Yep. That glorious task. Weeding. It’s rewarding, but definitely hard work and often pretty dirty
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Right before I left for my vacation, I received a lovely treat in the mail. Michael Miller had sent me some of Laura Gunn’s new line, Edges. This line, with the exception of a few focal prints, a line of bright, saturated blender prints. I knew right away that I wanted to work with that COLOR.
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I seem to be on a garment sewing kick lately! I’m rushing through some of these projects because we have an upcoming vacation and I wanted to get certain things done before the cruise. One of them was making a dress for the girly that matches my recently made Washi dress. Isn’t it too cute?!
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It so rarely happens these days that I use a fabric within the week of buying it (no comment on my fabric buying habits!). But this time I did. I cut into some of the fun Echino fabric I just got and some Melody Miller fabric for a gift for a pal of mine. There’s nothing
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