I stitched together this beauty over the past couple of days. The fabric is a cotton voile from Hancock’s, I got it off the clearance table for $1.50/yd I used McCall’s 6512 view A (sans pockets and arm tab) with the longer back from view B. I cut a size 6. I also used some…
I went ahead and ordered my pattern for the October Peony sewalong. I’ve noticed that I like to have all my supplies on hand before the sewalong begins so that I’m not waiting for this to arrive in the mail and waiting for that to…
It seems like every August I make a Macaron. Last year I followed the pattern exactly with indonesian batik and black cotton. This year I went a little outside my usual comfort zone with the colors and I strayed from the pattern! GASP! I went…
My husband wanted me to make something for him for his birthday and I cringed a little. It is very hard to come up with “manly” sewn items I thought immediately of either an iPad case or a Negroni, since I don’t have the Negroni…
I cannot believe I did this! I have been sewing since I was a small child, mostly from commercial patterns and I have never ever made this mistake before! I bought the wrong size pattern! This is the culprit! Has anyone ever done this…
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