Category: I made it!! 2014
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First indecision, then certainty!
It’s time to show you my finished dress that I started posting about here! I missed the deadline for The Monthly Stitch, but I was able to enter my dress in Patternreview’s Pattern Stash contest. Don’t you just love sewing under pressure? I used an old pattern from my stash – Butterick B4598. I cannot…
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The Button that took three days to sew on…
and I don’t even have a good reason why it took so long! Life just got in the way, I guess. But this skirt sat for three days waiting for one button. I suppose this is one reason why we have UFO’s (un finished objects). I downloaded the PDF pattern from Dixie DIY – the…
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Still working on my Indie Patterns…
And I am sooo enjoying it! This time I am using a pattern from Skinny Bitch Curvy Chick, the Tonic 2 – with a few modifications. I have made the sleeves shorter for the summer and have made the hemline shorter in the front and longer in the back (like a mullet?). I found a…
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Indie Pattern Month and a 2nd “New to Me”
Ok it’s a re-run. Is it still a New-to-me if I have made it already? I don’t care! I just wanted to show you how much I really like this pattern from Teach Me Fashion, the two tone singlet! This material was a polyester but it is so silky. It was even a little slippery…
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I’m baaaack!
I promised to return with the finished dress. The Orange Extravaganza I blogged about here. Well it is done. For a moment we thought that it would not be worn to my friend’s daughter’s grade 8 “graduation”, due to the teacher’s strike. No teachers, no school, no grade 8 “graduation” ceremony. Now I don’t want…
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Indie Pattern Month and a “New-to-Me”
Some of us already know it is Indie Pattern Month at the Monthly Stitch, and for those who don’t… Well… It is! This week’s challenge is “New-to-Me” – you have to sew up something using a pattern from an independent pattern maker, but it has to be a maker you have never tried before. I…