Category: I made it!! 2014

  • I figured it out!

    I have been sewing up exercise clothes in a frenzy lately and looking at what’s on line and in the stores and therefore the most fashionable.  I found a pretty gathered fold over waistband on a pair of $62.00 (Canadian) name brand yoga pants and I just wanted them – not for $62.00 though!  I…

  • So I guess if you lose your voice, it’s time to write a blog post?

    Lying here on the couch, watching TV and reading other blogs, fighting off my cold with hot chicken soup, hot tea and a chocolate bar (a recommended cure, honestly!), I have decided I might as well write up one of my own on what I put together last week. Perhaps you remember my sister, Bon-Bons &…

  • Diving into knits! Part Two

    Back on schedule again!  Perhaps some of you remember my other “Diving into knits”  post? I have been using McCall’s 4261. I sewed up my red T shirt, it was such an easy pattern to put together, but I think now it might be too nice to workout in! Now on to my blue yoga…

  • My first “up cycle”?

    My sister’s co-worker is traveling to Mexico very soon to avoid our rainy winter – the rain just goes on and on and on…  She asked my sister if I would be willing to sew her “tankini” for her before she leaves.  Sure, I love a new project! What we have here is her tankini top…

  • Next? Diving into knits!

    Last time I sewed anything with a knit fabric I was in grade 10. (That was a long, long time ago!) It was a heavy 100% polyester knit and it was solid pink! Very cool indeed! I made a t-shirt style top and hipster pants, almost a perfect match for this McCalls 3280. Can you…

  • It’s done!! Seriously!!

    Well it is Friday night and I am exhausted, but happy!  Exhausted because it was a busy work week and happy because I got to wear MY NEW COAT to work all week.  It was wonderful, not too hot and not too cold, but juuuust RIGHT! (I sound like Goldilocks and I am not even…