Creativity | drafting | Pattern hacking | Sewing | Sewing for me

Caped vest

By on November 8, 2019

I like to wear vests in the winter…sometimes in the summer, too. It gives some booty coverage and lengthens out your profile. This is a pattern hack of the WBM Builder top. I used the longer length, created a different front neckline, added the front facing, armhole facings, added a cape and a band at […]

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Creativity | OOTD | Outfits

OOTD – Week of October 28th

By on November 3, 2019

I’m going to try to do this again. I don’t expect that I will get every day, but maybe a few! I tend to get stuck in a rut of reaching for the same clothes, and I end up having a lot of clothes I don’t wear if I do so. This is going to […]

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Creativity | Pattern testing | Sewing | Sewing for me

Esther top

By on October 16, 2019

I signed up to do a few pattern tests for Wardrobe by Me in September. I should have known that I would be short on time, but I was optimistic that they wouldn’t be a problem. Big mistake. I ended up getting this done at the end of the deadline and pictures taken in a […]

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Creativity | Food

CSA

By on September 18, 2019

This summer we opted to get a weekly CSA (community supported agriculture) box from a farm that delivered to my husband’s work building. Having done it in the past, a full share was enough to feed our family when the kids didn’t eat anything really. I figured a full share now would cover us with […]

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Creativity | Outfits | Pattern hacking | Sewing | Sewing for me | Surface design

Fall comfort style

By on September 9, 2019

I have been sewing with Wardrobe by Me patterns for several years now, along with using them for pattern hacks.  I have to say that they are great base patterns that you can easily modify and use for wardrobe staples. This post today is geared towards using the patterns by Wardrobe by Me for staples […]

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Creativity | Review

August in review

By on September 2, 2019

Well, holy crap. Summer is gone. We are on the cusp of school over here, and it feels like we barely had any summertime. It was a very rainy summer over here, and it was capped by lots of sports and LOTS of running the kids around. September and October look to be super busy, […]

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Creativity | drafting | Sewing for me

A poncho

By on August 30, 2019

I am all for figure concealing clothing right now. Never did get that summer bod, so we are looping right back in winter bod. 😉 I am loving layers right now. I look on Pinterest at all those outfits with 5,000 layers and think of all the things I could sew to make it happen. […]

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Creativity

June & July in Review

By on August 5, 2019

Well…summer has just flown by. I’m sure I am not the only one that feels this way, as it seems to do that every year. It was a good thing that I got a lot of things sewn up before I started my job, since I have no free time anymore. Between my new job […]

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Fabric designs

Custom fabric review

By on August 4, 2019

In the last few years I have purchased, sewn up and washed fabrics from a several different custom fabric shops.  I know there are several more that offer custom fabric printing, but depending on minimums I won’t order if it has a minimum of over 2 yards.  I’m not going to sink that much money […]

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Creativity

A little black knit jacket with lots of mistakes

By on June 21, 2019

I wanted to make a heavy knit black jacket to wear to work, and so I decided to draft something. I ended up drafting it and cutting it out before I started my new job, but didn’t quite get it sewed up. I used a 4 way heavy ponte like knit, and used a princess […]

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