Category: Sewing Challenges
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We interrupt this program to bring you…
… a special bulletin. Yes, you know it already… In last week’s post, I asked you which vintage sewing pattern should be my first in the Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge 2015. The winner, with 64% of the vote is … McCall’s M7238! One of my sister’s “old” patterns and apparently the one she sewed up for…
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Vintage Sewing Pattern Pledge and MAGAM …
I can’t turn down a good Challenge! I have slowly realized that I am not one to make New Year’s Resolutions … in life or in my sewing. Instead, I just blather away about all the things I want to try this year … sometimes it happens and sometimes it doesn’t … sometimes I plan…
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It’s Jungle January!
and I thank you, Pretty Grievances, for hosting this Adventure! Pretty Grievances invites us all to join Jungle January so we can “add animal to our life”. I don’t think I have ever worn or even owned any Jungle prints. I almost thought I wouldn’t be able to bag anything before Jungle January was over! Animal prints are…
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I am committed …
to joining the “Ready to Wear (RTW) Fast” created by Sarah of “Goodbye Valentino”! In 2015, I will (as Sarah proposes) “refrain from buying ALL clothes including outerwear, dresses, tops, pants, shorts, sweaters, coats, fitness apparel, jeans and bathing suits.” (Shoes, socks and under garments are permitted! Whew!) How do you like THAT New Year’s…
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No rain, a new hair-do and a new dress!
… this is Happiness! It’s Frocktober! A while ago I received my Sewaholic Yaletown pattern in the mail and knew I had to sew it up with my Batic 100% rayon purchased during my shopping trip to Vancouver! My dress is done now, just in time, and I am very pleased with it.
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You’ve got mail!
Whoo hoo! Checked the mail this morning! Look what’s arrived! Sewaholic’s Yaletown dress (click for details) I still love having a paper pattern in my hands, crisp, flat, untouched, uncut – instead of having a printed photo of a pattern that is still stored on my computer! Does that show my age? I should show…
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OWOP week – Sept 6 to Sept 12
It’s OWOP week (One Week, One Pattern – organized this year by Handmade Jane). This is the week to wear the same pattern every day for seven days. Butterick B5988 is my go-to tee pattern. If you have read my blog before, you might recognize these. I really, really wanted to get another one made,…
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A Tale of Four Tees – Last but not Least!
Tonight I am catching up on my TNT Tee Contest posts and I wish to show you my last Tee, the 4th. I have my Tee #1 here, and Tee #2 here and here is Tee #3. You already know that this is my 4th make with my Butterick pattern – B5988. With this one…