Tag: Butterick

  • Designin’ December 2022 MORE Prize Sponsors!

    Designin’ December 2022 MORE Prize Sponsors!

    Hey there! Have you got your Designin’ December 2022 plans made yet? We all know I have my embroidered jeans all sorted out with this Helen’s Closet Arden pants pattern… still haven’t cut into my denim though! 🙂 I have also chosen my top fabric, a mysterious satiny fabric from my stash. Don’t know where…

  • Designin’ December 2022 Prize Sponsors!

    Designin’ December 2022 Prize Sponsors!

    How is your Designin’ December planning going? I’ve got my jeans pattern and fabric worked out. I think! I am inspired by this Etro embroidered skinny jean design. I can use my Helen’s Closet Arden pants pattern and my light-weight light blue denim to make them. These items were in my stash so I was…

  • Creative Tips for Sewing T-Shirts with Knit Fabric

    Creative Tips for Sewing T-Shirts with Knit Fabric

    I have been watching the talented sewists over on Instagram take part in the #magamsewalong organized by @suestoney and @sewing_in_spain and their other monthly guests.  I think I have been watching ever since the birth of the #magamsewalong!  Of course, I always want to join in the fun so I was quite pleased when the…

  • Designin’ December 2020!

    The DESIGNIN’ DECEMBER Sewing Challenge is FIVE years old!  I wonder how much that is in cat years? 🙂  This will be the 5th year that I have been sizing up all the fashions in the stores, magazines, online or on the runway. All the while thinking … “Why buy when you can make it…

  • Time for Tops!

    Time for Tops!

    It appears that the past months of working remotely at home, in casual clothes, has worn out the limited Collection of Casual Clothes I had in my closet! Since I have been on a #RTWfast since 2015, I am going to remedy this by putting aside my bag making and bag pattern designing, temporarily, and…

  • I finished my dress!

    I finished my dress!

    Well … actually my sister’s dress – part of my “Sister’s Sewing Project”.  It’s a border print and I’ve fallen in love with it.  Border print fabric is not easy to find!   My sister wanted this dress – she took this photo from the TV!  It was her inspiration.   And she found a…

  • I’m back!

    I’m back!

    Last weekend started out as a busy weekend and turned into a challenging week, but let me show you what I did! I am still working on my sister’s dress – part of my “Sister’s Sewing Project”.  She would like this dress, in this 100% cotton border print and I am using this pattern, Butterick…

  • The battle is over!

    The battle is over!

    It started off bad.  I wanted a dress like my mom and aunt.  I wanted it out of this fabric (100% Rayon, which I love) and I thought I could alter this pattern to what I wanted.  That’s when my problems started.  If you missed it, you can read about it here.     So…