I can’t find the last button that I need to sew onto the bottom of the skirt, but other than that and a good wash, this sucker is finished! I’m officially on SPRING BREAK! So I’ll be sewing a little bit this week in addition to tons of wedding planning and school work. Tomorrow I’ll…
I can’t decide which buttons to put on my red beignet for the SPC. It been holding me up all week, all thats left on this sucker are the buttonholes and buttons! I have enough black buttons and enough tan buttons to do the button placket on the skirt, but I did the topstitching in…
Halfway there! This week I finished up the New Look 6808 blouse. TADA! Its super wrinkly and needs to go in the wash pronto! I really like how the print turned out on this top. Its not something I would wear everyday because it isn’t as super comfy as my everyday clothes but I would…
As you saw in the last post I have started sewing together NL6808 and keeping with my schedule that I made, I got the beignet skirt cut out. I’m using red twill from fabric.com, I didn’t get the fabric until tuesday so I couldn’t have it cut out last week. The twill is so lovely…
The darts are sewn in and the front and back are pinned together. I’m waiting until I have some serger skills to do the seams, then hopefully this lovely voile will last more than a few rounds in the wash because the seams will be nicely finished. This is my 3rd time using this pattern,…
I purchased the AMH voile above yesterday from Whipstitch in Midtown Atlanta. I’m going to make version A without the cuffs and maybe scoop the neckline a little more. I’m taking Serger 101 at Whipstitch this month! I’m very excited about finally learning to work this crazy machine, I think it will make my sewing…
Shopping List: For New Look 6808 version A (modified) 1 3/8 yds of Innocent Crush Voile Shattered Sky by Anna Maria Horner A matching 16″ zipper (this seems like a big zipper for a blouse) For Colette Patterns Beignet 2 yds of Lightweight cotton twill in Red 12 3/4″ buttons For M5929 Version A 2yds…
The week 2 part of the spring palette challenge is to choose your patterns and fabrics, which was easy for me because I already picked my fabrics, I just needed to go through my pattern stash and decide what to make. From left to right: New Look 6808 in AMH innocent crush voile Colette Patterns…
Sarai over at Colette Patterns is doing the Spring Palette Challenge, I’m a little behind, last week we were supposed to come up with our palette and inspiration for the challenge and here’s mine. I’m really digging blues and muted reds and Anna Maria Horner (as you can see). For this challenge I would like…
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