Today, I shopped. With an hour to kill between appointments (how’d that happen?) I stopped at a fave secondhand store. I picked up an airy spring green and white marled turtleneck poncho/cape, a gold metallic handbag (roomy) and a black…
…on Sewing Refuge. Spring, three garments, March 1 to April 30th. I’m doing the items in this post: I think it’s a good spring challenge. I’ll be back from Florida, and the swimwear will have been sewn. Yesterday I ordered…
And also the linen/rayon for pants (this time with a biiiig hem allowance so I can let them down as it shrinks!) So I’m committed. On the swimwear fabric, I got a lovely burgundy solid and a turquoise solid. I…
But the one that takes the cake is BWoF 10/2008 132. No muslin. NO alterations (well, I did take 1/2 off the waist down to high hip once I was done – but that fabric was stretchy.) Wide, flowy legs.…
I’m halfway through the trouser pants at the 2-hour mark on construction. I have to mark on the traced pattern a new hip curve, because mine isn’t as curvy as the pattern is! And that will make the next time…
I just bought the swimsuit pattern. At lunch I’m off to hunt for some swimwear fabric (first, locally) and swimwear elastic. It’s sooo nice to be looking forward to a warm-weather vacation – and then spring shortly thereafter. My baby’s…
I’m taking up the CJ 1010 pants, and the BWoF wide leg pants from the 10/2008 (special design) issue. I’m making the latter in a ‘muslin’ of mini houndstooth from years and years and years ago. I’m also taking up…
It was 21 degrees today, but it smelled like spring. Just a hint… But I’m Florida daydreaming right now anyway. I was surfing Ebay for used toddler Keen sandals (just like mama’s!) I’m watching several sizes (6s and 7s) and…
I made Elizabeth Lee Nursing Classics 205, the tank, in a wicking pink knit. It’s not at all stretchy on the lengthwise grain, somewhat stretchy, with low recovery, on the crosswise grain. I’ve strugged with this fabric before, some years…
Most of the respondents in the survey we did recently for a sewing pattern company cited ‘no time to sew’ as one of the reasons their patterns were still in factory folds. But I will challenge anyone to ‘no time…
I sewed the CJ Base Wear Two leggings last weekend in a half hour or so (there’s another post about this a little further down). And then I also sewed a swing top with rosette out of the rose silk…
Been surfin’ the Jalie website for some new knits patterns. I’m considering a couple of the ruched top patterns that I don’t have (and Emilie posted the cutest versions of herself pregnant in them). I love 2787, the criss cross…