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 pattern and my local fabric shops were out of the…
As I mentioned in my last post I loved sewing up my first Banksia, so much that I was ready to make a 2nd one immediately. This time I made a few slight alterations and made the top from a knit instead of a woven. The most noticeable alterations are the smaller collar and…
There are so many summer sewing challenges and sew a longs going on right now! I want to do them all! Sunni is guiding us on the 2-in-1 Sewalong where you can choose which dress you want to do from Simplicity 1880. I think I’ll do the wrap dress and choose a stash fabric. This…
I can hardly believe it has been 2 months since my last post. In those 2 months I’ve gone from being unemployed to working 2 jobs just to make ends meet. I’ve been working about 60 hours a week with 0 days off (except Thanksgiving). Now that I have a regularish schedule figured out with…
This week I have a job interview…YAY! And I’m working on extreme couponing as well as sewing the dress for my fall palette challenge.
I was trying to figure out patterns to use for those three dresses in the last post. I think the shift dress would be the easiest to execute, I’d use the Macaron pattern that I already have and make the yoke sheer, eliminate the sleeves and extend the length, or maybe change the shape of…
Lee may or may not have some sort of “Doctor Prom” in the near future. Of course this means I need a killer dress and if I’m going to make it I can’t wait until a few weeks before the dance so put something together. I’ve started pulling inspiration off the interwebs. I’m thinking I…
I have been painting up a storm the past few weeks. It started when Lee and I built a small console table for our entryway and painted it “Dark Ash”, then it was the unfinished wood stool in our kitchen (the one we have so I can reach the top shelf, because I’m miniature), then…
‘I, Kati of KatiMade, sign up as a participant of Self-Stitched-Sept ’11. I endeavour to wear at least one handmade garment or accessory each day for the duration of September 2011′ I’ve never really mentioned this before but when I was in high school I took one semester of jewelry design. It was really fun…
I’ve had my first experience with assembly line sewing with the 2 Jenny skirts that I made this week and it was certainly more efficient than sewing each one on its own and got me thinking about sewing all of my garments this way. The instructions on Gertie’s blog were for the same pattern but…
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