Creativity | drafting | Sewing for me

Sew Americana

By on June 29, 2017

Today is day 4 of the Sew Americana tour, and I am sharing an outfit with a baseball theme.  What is more Americana than baseball? In the past I used to make my kids 4th of July outfits when my parents had a big 4th of July party. Now, we are lucky if we do […]

Continue Reading

drafting | Sample sewing | Sewing | Sewing for the girl | tween sewing

Numbers

By on June 9, 2017

This is kind of the perfect fabric for school-age kiddos.  This is a pre-order up at The Fabric Cottage with numbers and letters is various colorways.  I was a bit late to choose a sample to sew up, so I ended up getting the numbers in white and black.  I probably would have chosen the […]

Continue Reading

Creativity | drafting | Sample sewing | Sewing | Sewing for the girl

What’s your sign?

By on June 8, 2017

This was kind of fun to sew up! The constellation fabric for the skirt is on pre-order at RP Custom Fabrics.  This sample is the 58″ round on bamboo lycra.  She has a few other round panels, and they come in various sizes. The girl claimed it when she saw it, so I had to […]

Continue Reading

drafting | Sample sewing | Sewing | Sewing for me

Rock on

By on June 7, 2017

When RP Custom Fabrics offered up these strike-offs for sewing up, I knew my time would be at a premium.  Unfortunately, this past week and upcoming week, we are in the thick of games and tournaments.  My poor kiddos are tired, tired, tired, but luckily school is almost out for them.  It is hard to […]

Continue Reading

Craziness | Creativity

June…the month of no time to sew

By on June 6, 2017

Of course, that does not preclude me from volunteering to sew up samples.  I currently have several strike-offs sitting on my sewing table that need to be sewn up.  One is finished, but I do not have an available model.  She has softball just about every night this week, so tomorrow I will have to […]

Continue Reading

Outfits

Me Made May – Week #4 and to the end

By on June 2, 2017

Last full week, which is good since I am getting tired of trying to get outfit pictures!  I used to do outfit pictures daily, and I would usually just go home at lunch to do them.  I haven’t been doing that very often lately, so I try to get them before leaving for work in […]

Continue Reading

Creativity | Sample sewing | Sewing | Sewing for the boy

Another gamer shirt

By on June 1, 2017

When I saw that Sugar Ink Fabric was planning a Skyrim/Elder Scrolls round, I knew at least two of my peoples would be interested in this fabric.  I was correct!  The owner, Christie, asked for strike off seamstresses, and I happily volunteered. Pre-order for Skyrim Upon receiving the panel, the design looked a little long.  […]

Continue Reading

Sewing

Suit up for summer tour – Under it all

By on May 23, 2017

Welcome to the Suit up for Summer Tour! Over the years, I have made many swimming suits. Sewing swimwear is NOT HARD.  I know people get intimidated by sewing them, but it really is much easier than it may appear. Most of the swimsuits I have made over the years have been for my daughter.  […]

Continue Reading

Outfits

Me Made May – Week #3

By on May 22, 2017

Here we are at week #3!  I am trying not to wear the same thing twice, and that doesn’t appear to be an issue so far.  I have a lot of clothes that I have made over the years.  This was a very rainy and wet and COLD week, so not much for outside pictures. […]

Continue Reading

Creativity | drafting | Sample sewing | Sewing for me

Roses and thorns

By on May 20, 2017

I like a good theme-centric project to get my wheels turning.  This one was related to the intended fabric, which was inspired by the 1996 movie, The Craft.  The plotline was centered around a group of girls that aspired to be witches, and luckily it was actually on Netflix so I could reacquaint myself with […]

Continue Reading