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Gold Outfit for Stylo

By on November 4, 2014

First of all, I was very happy that my friend, Rachel at Nest Full of Eggs, asked me to come along with her on this Stylo project.  I love the fashion photography aspect of this little magazine, plus add in the fact that I get to sew up something a bit dressier than normally allowed..well, […]

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Stylo Magazine

By on November 3, 2014

Well, I can finally talk about being in the current issue of Stylo, since it has released today! Rachel of Nest Full of Eggs was asked to be in this issue, and she asked me to make a look and photograph our girls together for the issue.  So…that was my backdoor way into the magazine. […]

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Beautiful Blues

By on October 27, 2014

When I saw this blue and white fabric in the store, I grabbed it post haste.  It is beautiful, had a great hand and a nice stretch to it.  It feels like cotton, but it is a bit thicker and has lycra in it.  After procuring a few yards of it, I went in search […]

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Zip and clip bag tester

By on October 22, 2014

I belong to a group on Facebook for testing patterns, which I am not overly active in.   A lot of the patterns are for younger kids, or not something my kids would wear, so I tend to not test. I saw this bag come up, checked it out, and loved the design! The pattern […]

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A black muslin

By on October 20, 2014

This past weekend I had some time to sew, so I made up a few things for myself.  One of these was a shirt that was supposed to be the muslin for another shirt I wanted to make.  It didn’t quite happen that way, though, since this didn’t turn out like I wanted.  It ended […]

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A skullcap for football

By on October 13, 2014

If you saw the image from the football game, then you saw the boys all bundled up and cold.  The Boy said his ears were frozen by the end of the game.  He tried to put a stocking cap under his helmet, but it was too thick.  The helmets have to fit them pretty tight, so […]

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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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Grey days

By on September 29, 2014

We are heading into the lovely grey days of Autumn, where it tends to rain a bit and then snow a bit. Not looking forward to either, especially after the beautiful weekend we had. I took these shots right before it started to rain, and the skies were getting a bit grey.  Definitely a Monday morning. […]

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Creativity | Sewing | Sewing for the girl | tween sewing

Tween all the way

By on September 22, 2014

Today I am guest posting over on the Oliver & S blog, showing how to tween-ify some of their patterns that go up to a size 12.  The patterns I chose were actually two boy patterns that I made for the Girl.  I think the main difference between boy and girl patterns are the fact […]

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Pinteresting Project – August

By on September 9, 2014

Hey, back to Pinterest!  I know it is no longer August, but I made this in August.  I just didn’t get any pictures taken of it. This is my take on this Desingual skirt I found and pinned.  I did the yoke and pockets, but pretty much everything else is a bit different from the […]

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