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April Challis Sewalong
This is just a quick post. (It has to be quick or I’ll never meet the Pavlova sew-along deadline) Did you see Lady Katza’s spectacular idea for April? A sew-along in challis. It is basically the...
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Squeak! A Squirrel Circle Skirt
Over the weekend, our family went to an anniversary party for Pete’s parents. The theme was “Tiempo de Rock n Roll” and the dress code was “estile de las 50′s y 60′s.” The boys were all for just...
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April Challis Chalet: Stash-Busting in Vibrant Color
As of the beginning of April, Pete and I have been married for 10 years. As exciting an anniversary milestone as that is, busy schedules threatened to interfere with a proper celebration of it. Over...
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Simplicity 8488: Triple the Nightgowns (and a Minion Hat on the Side)
I’m going to start this off with a relatively quick knitting project I recently finished. The “Minion Hat” for Ace. His most favorite of favorite movies is Despicable Me, so when he found out that...
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu (and Now I’m Hungry)
Image via Google Images This project has taken me months. That may be an exaggeration. As far as construction goes, it really didn’t take that long in actually working on it. As far as getting it...
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Butterick 5748: Vintage to Modern
Remember how I had said that my in-laws anniversary party was 50′s-60′s themed? Thus the squirrel skirt for Guinevere that was needed. I couldn’t let such a perfect reason to sew up a vintage-y look...
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McCall’s 7989: I Heart the 90′s
Hooray! I managed to sneak in one last vibrantly colored April Stash Bust before the end of the month (being on the West Coast of the United States, it is still April here, for a few hours at least)....
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Hello Peek-A-Boo Patterns; Welcome to My Stash
I’m making some progress on my mystery project (I love that you are trying to guess what it is, but no one has guessed correctly yet). 2 muslins down and I think I’m ready to cut into the real fabric....
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Cake Patterns Tiramisu: 2nd Edition
I’m still working on my mystery project (which has me saying weirdly obvious things out loud, such as “wow, 9 yards is the same as 27 feet”, just because it took something like 5 hours to cut out the...
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Tiny Boy Clothes
I had the recent opportunity to try out two of the other Peek-a-Boo Patterns I recently acquired. I’m still really loving this pattern line. This time I used the Classic Chinos pattern and the Classic...
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Vintage Simplicity 8171: Sweet As Cherry Pie
I was thinking of giving this post the title “What the Vintage Fairy Puked Up”. It doesn’t sound nearly as appetizing as cherry pie, but considering how much of this dress fits the mainstream ideas...
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Hummingbird Meets Pavlova: More Like Frosted Animal Cookies Than Cake
This is a Cake patterns mash-up ensemble. It’s the Hummingbird top with a Pavlova skirt. A really long Pavlova skirt. I added about ten inches to the length and cut the pieces on the fold so...
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Vintage Noir
This month’s challenge on The Monthly Stitch was vintage patterns. It was the perfect reason to finally get to a dress I’ve been planning to make for almost a year now. The pattern is Advance 8211, a...
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Banana Anna
What to say about this dress? Obviously it’s just a little bit over the top (understatement?) but still gloriously wearable in my estimation. I tried to tone it down with serious shoes, but this...
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Back to Stash-Busting
I’ve had a few stash-busting projects with pictures sitting around waiting to be posted for quite a while. These are more practical than exciting/inspiring, but still a good use of my stashed fabric,...
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Miss Guinevere 1949
This is a project that was well over a year in the making. It started with picking up the fabric at a thrift store. It’s a nice thick wool. It didn’t have a tag on it to indicate where it came from,...
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Stretch Lace Stash-Busting and Totally Off-Topic Sherlock
I didn’t mean to procrastinate on my last bit of stash-busting, but then again, it would have been rather anticlimactic to have finished it up in September or something. Here’s today’s completed...
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Down the Rabbit Hole
Here it is. The last stash busting project of the year, number 25 of 25. And what would a blog post be without pictures or conversation? I’ll begin at the beginning and when I come to the end, I’ll...
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Stash-busting Sewalong 2014: The Sequel
I’ve managed to avoid doing a 2013 wrap-up. While I enjoyed reading everyone else’s top 5 lists, a la Gillian, I haven’t wanted to be that introspective. I can’t entirely avoid the introspection right...
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Jungle January 2014: Hopefully not Giant Purple People Eaters
Hi there. I hope you’ve been enjoying Aunty Laura’s recent posts about her refashion take on the iconic Rear Window Dress. I’m going to interrupt the flow a little and take things in an entirely...
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