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Twirly summer dress – a tutorial

By on March 19, 2012

Upon finally wearing this dress for more than just a few pictures for me, Anya decided she rather liked it.  It is a comfy twirly dress, with the added bonus of a big flower. I rather like it, as well.  It isn’t too complicated to make and it mixes wovens and knits together for an […]

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Flowers and visions of Spring

By on March 17, 2012

Anya’s upcoming 1st Grade Performance is apparently going to be “How does your garden grow”.  I think this would be a great dress for her to wear to it, with all the spring colors and flowers.  She told me she prefers the black and white dress I made earlier, though.  We shall see… Just in […]

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A little bit of linen

By on March 5, 2012

This outfit is sorta from something she picked out of a catalog (Garnet Hill).  She wanted some shorts and a top, but I did them in different colors and slightly different styles. The shorts are linen, so they should breathe nicely this summer.  It was just a simple shorts pattern, with a ruffle added along […]

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Little fashionista

By on February 27, 2012

Well, it was more sewing for Anya this week. This first one is a “sorta” tiered-maxi skirt for her out of fabric that I have had in my stash for quite awhile.  I made a maternity skirt out of it, originally, and this skirt used up the rest of the fabric.  It isn’t a stretchy material, […]

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A twirly summer dress…another knockoff

By on February 20, 2012

When I saw this dress in the CWD Kids magazine, I thought it would be a great summer dress for her.  She even agreed! It is a mix of knit and woven, so I have a placket on the back.  The neck binding is woven, and I figured that it needed extra give on the […]

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Sewing with chiffon knit

By on February 8, 2012

I did end up getting a few more dresses sewn up, so I will post my other outfit that I made for Anya last week.  No pictures of her in it, yet.  I’m sure I will get some this summer, though. I bought some chiffon knit on fabric.com to sew up some cute little skirts […]

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Summer dresses

By on February 6, 2012

I actually did get some sewing in this week, amazingly enough.  Of course, that meant that I did not work out much at all because I can’t sew in the evening AND work out. Non possible! Here are the fruits of my labor.  These dresses are destined for an orphanage in Haiti.  The Girl was […]

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Vacation sewing – clothes for me

By on December 29, 2011

I got a chance to use some more of that fabric that has been sitting in my closet for a long time. For these first two tops I used a shirt I had bought as the pattern.  This first one is using a sweater knit.  It is a thinnish sweater, so it definitely needs something […]

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Vacation Sewing – clothes for the little miss

By on December 27, 2011

I spent the first few days of vacation last week working for a bit.  That was fun. Not! Anyways, after getting a few things out the door for work, I was able to concentrate on the LOADS of sewing stuff I hadn’t been able to get to lately. First up was finishing the teacher gifts.  […]

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Random crafting

By on November 26, 2011

My To-Do list is acquiring epic proportions.  Thanks to Pinterest.  Thanks also to my lack of getting anything done lately. Thankfully, I squirreled away some time across a few weekends to get a few things off my I-want-to-try-this list. Project #1 I had these tiles left over from tiling the kitchen a few years ago.  […]

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