Hi! I'm Patty, a 30-something and a recent transplant from Minneapolis to Texas. Read along as I get used to life in the suburbs, nest in a new home and sew my way through Dallas.
Good morning, you freakish fowls of non-nature, bred to have XL-sized legs, all the better for, um. Perhaps this is something you should discuss with your Gold’n Plump representative…. Let’s talk boots, shall we? The leaves are falling and the wind is blowing and I am pulling on the boots every day. From fall...
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Morning, you stately wolfhounds. Today’s post is all about a complete change of direction in my fall wardrobe planning. I’ve already posted a bit regarding my fall wardrobe plan (known from this day forward as Patty the Snug Bug (PSB) early fall 2011.) It’s all hot pink with DRESSES!! I’ve gotten snagged up on...
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I couldn’t decide all day long if I loved the pattern mixing going on today or if I looked like a crazy lady. It’s a bit hard to see in the photo, but the dress is grey, black, white and purple; the sweater is grape and fuschia. I think it’s a go… dress –...
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Greetings kangaroos! I managed to take some grainy, blurry photos last week to show all ya’ll one of my more recent endeavors. Fairly boring stuff, as I’m heavily into making-separates-for-fall-that-I-can-wear-to-work mode. That’s a mode, right? Like, an out of the box, everyone has it mode? Anyway, here it is… I believe I dubbed this...
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Happy Friday you weasels and marmosets. I don’t even know what a marmoset is. I’m having an existential marmoset crisis. In any case, I thought I’d drop in for a quick, cozy Friday chat, seeing as I’ve dropped off the map for the last week. Whew! What a week it was! Let’s do this...
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Greetings all you sub-par tinkerbells. Today I just have a short tale of a retail MIRACLE!! Unlike the rest of blogland, I’ve only been half paying attention to the Missoni for Target hub-bub. I knew it was coming, in fact, I had a vague idea that it was here, thanks to Twitter, but it...
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Greetings you furry legged newts. Do you guys get more fearful as Halloween approaches and the witches need your legs and tails to work on their witchy brews? Today’s post is a CHEATER post, in that I’ve actually been taking AND editing daily outfit photos, but not getting around to posting them. So let’s...
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Good morning you honeybees. Lovers of flowers. Menacers of small children. I made a scarf that will totally appeal to you… Isn’t that just the teeniest, yet most adorable scarflette you’ve every pointed those terrifying stingers at? So here’s the background: as I’ve mentioned before (repeatedly. With lots of exclamation points.) we recently started...
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Good morning gremlins! Stay away from the water! I like you cute and fluffy!! So last week I alluded to the dress that I made and this weekend I finally took some photos. This is yet another version of the super-easy maxi dress from Kwik Sew (3856.) I’m teaching this class on Friday and...
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Greetings maladjusted hippopotami. I’m back today with a followup from last week’s post asking about how to manage a full time job, a full time hobby and a blog. And chores. And cooking… you all had such great comments I wanted to circle around and talk about this again! The comments really broke down...
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Morning honey badgers. I know you just don’t give a damn and you can run backwards, but put down your delicious snakes for a minute and take a look at what came to live in our basement this week! Yay! I finally got a cutting mat and it makes everything so awesome I’ve already...
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I’m barely eeking by with this outfit – it’s CLEARLY a summer dress, but I made it ‘transitional’ with boots and a sweater. I’m not a fan of the word transitional. At least pertaining to clothing. Hmmmm… in any case, I’m trying to follow the wise advice of favorite style blogger Sally from Already...
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Greetings you humpy bumpy camels and chimpanzees! Yesterday I showed off my new skirt and sweater and today I’m back with a few more details! First, the portrait collar sweater. This sweater was mostly view C from Butterick 4230 – unfortunately for all you camels, it’s an out of print pattern, but pretty basic....
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Alright you adorable koalas. I’m running low on title inspiration. But not on sewing inspiration! I finished not one, but TWO new garments this weekend that make me very happy! A nice, fall sweater and skirt. This was sort of a surprise project. I woke up Sunday morning, thinking about one of the inspiration...
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From Sewingadicta… a tutorial on embellishing your legwear!
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