I’ve been on a long hiatus for health reasons. I can’t promise I’m back regularly yet, but I miss sharing my creations with you all. I just finished a dress for my company’s art show and wanted to show you the pictures and go into the details of it. The theme for the art show…
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I haven’t posted for a while due to some ongoing (but currently manageable enough) stomach troubles, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been sewing and creating! It’s my favorite thing to do, so it tends to be relaxing even when I’m not feeling so great. I’ve managed to complete 3 projects recently, all from vintage…
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Last year I made a red dress for Valentine’s Day, but this year I was inspired by a dress I saw from H&M to make a fancy satin number in ivory. I was almost tempted to buy the H&M dress so I could study the front wrap detail, but I waited so long that it…
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A few years ago, I had a quilted cotton blanket that I loved the look of but never used as a blanket – the size wasn’t right for my bed and I don’t always like the weight of thick cotton blankets. So I thought it might get more use pieced into a fancy coat! For…
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By now many of us are tired of wearing sweatpants day after day, so I decided to make a different kind of sweat suit: a skirt and puff-sleeved top! Made of fleece fabric, it’s warm as a regular jogging set, but way fancier. The fabric is a super soft bamboo/cotton sweatshirt fleece (with a smooth…
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To ring out the old year, I sewed a PJ set. This type of clothing sums up 2020 for some of us, as it doubles as work-from-home attire for us non-essential desk jockeys! The main fabric is an adorable vintage-style cartoon print on cotton lycra jersey from Funkalicious Fabrics, with contrasting black rib-knit cuffs and…
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