This is a top I made to go with another pair of jeans I bought for the Girl. As you can see…it is for the Fall and not for the warm weather we are experiencing now. I figured that she would need a long-sleeved top to go with these jeans. At first my energy […]
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Tie-dye vs. the monsoon
By Stacy on June 25, 2014I made this lovely little knit/stretch lace capri joggers for the Girl to tie-dye at the camp. I used parts of an Ottobre pattern, but the legs on it are a bit off. I will need to adjust that a bit next time I use that pattern. The white lace on it is the same lace as […]
Shannon invited me to participate in the Breeze Top pattern tour, and I just couldn’t say no! Of course, the Girl has her own opinions and I wasn’t sure she would be as thrilled as I. Fortunately, she liked the style and we worked on a top that she would wear. Yes, this is the top […]
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Tie-dye chronicles
By Stacy on June 18, 2014The camp that the children go to for a few weeks over the summer has a tie dye activity. Every. Single. Week. Really, how many tie dye t-shirts does a kid need? The Boy already did a tie-dyed t-shirt as part of his last week in school. He learned there were different ways to tie […]
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Another Pinterest Fail
By Stacy on June 16, 2014I was excited to try to make this top: The supplies I used was a lace appliqué and a very light, thin cotton gauze. Unfortunately, I couldn’t find lace like the top above. The piece I found was smaller, but thought it would still work. I drafted a pattern, and made it very drapey and long. […]
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Swimsuit time again
By Stacy on June 10, 2014It’s that time of year again…time to sew the Girl some swimsuits! The kids are at a real camp in the woods for the next two weeks and they swim everyday. Not sure how warm that pool is right now, though. This is also going to be my June Pinterest project. If you noticed…I didn’t have a […]
This week, I am up over at Gracious Threads (oops, guess it is next week!) for her Embellish is for Boys series. She is showing some great options for making boy clothes more fun! I am showing how to use vinyl iron-on from my Silhouette machine to dress up boy clothes. I bought this stencil from […]
I bought the Girl some jeans from Justice when they went on sale. I concede that making jeans is not my favorite thing to do, though I am getting a bit better at it. Finding decent bottom weights with lycra and fun colors is not the easiest, though. I was just fine with whipping out my […]
Like so many sewing mama’s I am making an Elsa costume. We went to Wizard Con (a comic con), so the kids needed a costume…of course! She wanted to go as Elsa. Big shocker right there. 😉 When looking at Elsa pictures, her dress went from a sky blue to an almost turquoise color. We ended […]
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Skirt Fixation – Week 4 – Destash time
By Stacy on April 25, 2014Here we are at the last week! I actually have been destashing this entire time, as I have wayyyyy too much fabric on my shelves! It was bad before, but then the nearest fabric store to me decided to liquidate. Well…then…at 50-70% off it was hard NOT to buy more fabric. I was like one […]
