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Plaid cape top and gored skirt

By on November 15, 2016

Here is a Pinterest pattern hack coming for you.  This pin is pretty popular.  It is a short-sleeved top with a “cape” over it.  If you are on Pinterest, I am sure you have seen it.  I know it comes up in my feed all the time. I wanted to make this as part of […]

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A CAbi hack

By on August 1, 2016

Every 6 months or so I am invited by a friend to her CAbi party.  I really do like the clothes, but in my opinion, they have gone down in quality over the years.  The last pair of overpriced pants I bought from them stretched out so very, very much and had poor recovery.  So…not […]

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Outfit for a wedding

By on June 25, 2016

I had a wedding to go to today, and the reception was going to be outside.  It was supposed to be a humid, 90 degree day, so I knew I needed something cool.    It ended up storming on us, and I left the wedding reception a bit early with my son.  Not a fan of […]

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Keyhole overlay top – pattern hack

By on April 6, 2016

A few years ago, I pinned this picture on my Things To Make board on Pinterest.  I love the look of this top, and figured I could just hack a t-shirt pattern or something to make it. As part of my wardrobe capsule, I wanted to make that top…finally.  After having sewn up the Sneha […]

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A long awaited dance costume

By on March 2, 2016

There is a little girl, who I have known since birth, that requested a dance costume from me.  You see, last year when she chose her individual costume for her dance performance, she got it from a catalog. *shocked gasp* An entire team had also chosen that dance outfit for their performance, so needless to […]

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Mini-capsule for the tween

By on September 20, 2015

It is the time of year when I focus on back to school sewing.  The Boy doesn’t really need too much.  He really just likes to wear exercise pants/shorts and t-shirts.  Not exactly exciting to sew. The Girl, at least, is a little fashionista.  She likes new clothes, but they must be comfortable.  She told […]

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A new clutch

By on August 16, 2015

Our friend turned 40 yesterday, so a bunch of us went on a brewery crawl (her husband rented a bus for us, thank goodness!).  The kids were out of town all week at their aunt and uncle’s farm, so I had some time to sew up something to wear!  I will go into details of […]

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Oversized

By on June 30, 2015

This is another shirt that I drafted from a pin on Pinterest.  It is actually a Burda pattern that I saw at one point last year.  It was a pretty simple pattern, so it wasn’t like I needed to buy it.  It is just a big boxy shirt. So…not sure about it.  It is really […]

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A mis-shapen thing

By on June 19, 2015

I was trying to figure out what I wanted to sew on a Sunday night, since I finally had some free time.  We are in the midst of softball, baseball and yardwork. It must be springtime. I decided to try to draft a new pattern from one of my pins on Pinterest.  This is the […]

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Fall Colors

By on October 6, 2014

Today I am guest posting over at Oliver & S for another tweenified version of their patterns: the Hide and Seek Tunic and Playtime Leggings. (Yep, they gave me these patterns again.  As you know, I tend to draft my own, so I don’t buy patterns anymore for the most part.  All opinions on these […]

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