I decided last Spring that I was going to use up my special fabrics. The St James ponte from Mood (coming up soon; well, one of them). The Liberty of London that I bought two years ago at Liberty of…
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Unexpected Summer Dress
So this contest happened and I ended up sewing this dress for it… And I really wasn’t planning on making a dress right now. I have some separates to make that I actually need way more. I guess some interruptions…
Stars Dress
Or I could have said “Christmas Tree Topper Dress”. Or “What Was I Thinking She’s Going To Get Tomato Sauce All Over It White Dress”. Let’s just stick with stars. This month’s Project Run and Play challenge is fabric manipulation.…
Tagged with: children's clothes, cloud9fabrics, fabricmanipulation, makingchildrensclothes, mingoandgrace, project run and play, sewing
Posted in Sewing
Posted in Sewing
Mingo and Grace (For Me This Time)
I’ve been testing Mingo and Grace patterns since the very beginning. Usually in V’s size. This time though, for her 4th pattern, Farrah made a women’s pattern. It’s based on the Blake dress (link to my post because I can’t seem…
Star and Ack!
I’m working on something new that I’ve been meaning to do for a long long time. Something else always comes first. But this time, Project Run and Play helped me out. The November/December challenge is fabric manipulation. I had so…
Tagged with: fabricmanipulation, makingchildrensclothes, mingoandgrace, project run and play, sewing, shadowfolds
Posted in Sewing
Posted in Sewing
New Mingo and Grace
When you move to a new place, a lot less sewing takes place for a while. But then, Farrah asks for testers for her new pattern, MG2715, and well, you just have to fit it in! This one is a…
Loving Right Now
Back in September, I posted about the 5 things I was loving back then. I remember thinking back then that it would be nice to write this type of post on a monthly basis or something. And then I decided not…
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Errata – Blake Dress by Mingo and Grace
Sometimes, stuff happens. The Blake dress was supposed to go live on Friday but Farrah got sick and couldn’t publish it when she had wanted. I was away from home and had already scheduled the post. By the time I…
Another Mingo and Grace!
Remember the Charlie dress? Come on. You remember. Here, here, here, and here… Well, Mingo and Grace is at it again with a brand new dress pattern, the Blair Blake dress. As with Charlie, this is a classic dress but with…
Project Run & Play : Denim
I think this may have been my least favorite of the themes for this season. I don’t like head to toe denim. Besides, I only had one kind of denim in stock and I wanted to stick to stash. (That…
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Posted in Sewing
Posted in Sewing
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