Morning honeybears! I have another new garment from my garment-making binge of a couple weekends ago. This one isn’t too exciting, but it’s very welcome to my winter wardrobe and not everything can be a stunner, right? Behold the new stripey shirt! I used a fairly heavily modified Hot Patterns 1035 – the Weekender...
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Morning fruit bats! I’ve got a nice, simple skirt to show you today. One that is making me eat my words – the ones in the vein of A-line skirts suck. You’d think that would make me feel modest and perhaps a bit diffident, but it seems to have the opposite effect. I’m feeling...
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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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Greetings chickens! I don’t care if the city says we aren’t allowed and the neighbors are complaining. We’re totally keeping you. So! For tonight’s post, I’m unveiling not one, not even two, but THREE new garments! This post promises to be low on the exposition and high on the visual interest. Just like Pulp...
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Happy Monday fellow flamingos! Here in Minneapolis we’ve gotten another foot and a half of snow, pretty much ensuring that Minnesota, at least, is entering a new ice age. Luckily, my manic focus on making trousers will serve me well in these new, colder times. Also, my dog-eared copy of the Mammoth Hunters will...
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In a burst of sewing focus, today’s projects included redrafting the ginormous Kwik Sew turtleneck pattern from yesterday, as well as cutting and sewing three more shirts. It was a good day. Here’s the the rundown of my three almost-finished shirts (all need hemming) and after the jump detailed photos of how I redrafted...
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So folkses. I’ve actually had this sweater in my possession (unhemmed, of course) since a few days after the terrible event that I still can’t talk about without tearing up. Freaking amazon hipster stealing the win from Mondo, he of the kneesocks and tapdancing… It took me forever to finish the skirt (and hem...
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I have been on the hunt. For a shirt. The perfect sweater. Also, I hate sewing knits. Also, I was looking for raglan sleeves. But above all, I’m looking for the perfect pattern for a recent acquisition. Nice, heavy cotton jersey with crisp navy and white stripes. Mmmmmm… So any reader would understand how...
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Befuddled by my Lady Grey muslin and a never-ending stream of cherry tank tops, I took a little time last night and this morning to make a nice new shirt! I was quite surprised to find that I’ve worn my first version of the Hot Patterns Bo Ho De-Luxe Peasant shirt a few times...
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Self-stitched September struck again, forcing me to try out a new pattern to save me from the drudgery of wearing yet another tank-top-and-barely-qualifying-RTW-jeans-with-darts or slightly-creepy-overdressy-for-being-at-home dress. I decided to try out Hotpatterns 1043, the Bo-Ho-De-Luxe Peasant Top. Behold, in all it’s difficult to photograph glory! I bought this pattern a while ago, thinking...
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I spent day eight of SSS working on the muslin for Vogue 8648 a cute little dress with a pencil skirt that I’m working on to wear to a wedding this weekend. I also did some errands, and took the most wonderful lunchtime walk with my basset hound, stopping by my neighborhood sewing store,...
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Well! Self-stitched September started off with a bang! I actually spent a majority of my day in what could be loosely termed as ‘refashioned’ clothes – alas, no pictures, but I was in the garden wearing (1) a pair of cut off jeans that I cleverly made cargo and ipod pockets for using the ‘cut...
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OK. This is the part of the fall wardrobe I’ve been dreading. Pants. I’ve tried making pants and shorts a few times and haven’t come up with anything usable. What I’ve done the few times I’ve tried before is to make WAY too many adjustments right off the bat – lengthening the crotch depth,...
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OK, so project #1 of the fall wardrobe project was NOT simplicity 2501 as predicted. (And with my never-ending indecision as to whether I want a contrasting waistband on that one or not, who knows if I’ll ever get it done!) Instead I decided to go straight to Hotpatterns 1063, a cute little A-line...
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A little bit of sewing, some how tos, vintage love and a quest for the perfect fit. Hi! I’m Patty, a thirty-something living in Minneapolis with a cute little house, husband and basset hound, 3 cozy snug bugs.
