Tag: McCall’s
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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 &…
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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…
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Yet another purse?
A good friend at work goes for walks with me at lunch hour. Gotta get some fresh air and exercise! she says. Our path quite often takes us through the Mall with all it’s great shops. She is very careful to keep herself between me and the purse store, she jokes, because she thinks I…
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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…
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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…
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ACKKK !!
Look at this! I have stared and measured, measured and stared, and finally I have gotten the placement right (and the nerve) to sew my toggle closures on to my pea coat! First one done! Oh… wait! I can’t sew the lining in now. There is no seam allowance to sew it to! Sewing the…