Instragram has informed me that making oneself a birthday dress is a thing. I had planned to make a dress, the fabric was sitting right there, my birthday was coming up so I thought I’d give it a try!
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Autumn ’18 Sewing Bee
Sewing Bee: noun. Old-fashioned
A small informal social gathering (usually of women) based around the activity of making or mending clothes or other things with a needle and thread
Binding an edge on a knit garment
I originally posted this on a different blog so some of the info and references may appear odd but I don’t want to lose this info when that blog goes poof … so here is a little tutorial (mostly for me) on how to bind an edge on knit fabrics. BTW – this pattern has become a TNT.
Simplicity 8570 ~ Simple Dress
Every morning I stare at my wardrobe and nothing excites me. I’m really tired of the standard pants/shirt/topper silhouette and am beginning to realize that I want to wear dresses.
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Swoon Patterns ~ Glenda Purse
Something different. I learned to sew a purse!
Butterick 6494 ~ Athleisure + Retreat Results
A mixed bag of results from the retreat, and nothing finished that weekend. I came home with a car full of UFOs that are finally done, 2 weeks later. Only one pattern was new to me – Butterick 6494 – so the majority of this post is a review.
Janine Sews 