I snagged the Sunki Dress from Figgys during a Friday Fiver last year and decided they’d make the perfect plaid flannel Christmas dresses! All three girls got matching dresses, but I only got pictures of my oldest two. This was a really fun, really slippery hike. The trail was covered in ice, but it wasn’t…
Pretty in Peplum Tour and a Fabric Giveaway!
(Alternately titled: What Could Possibly Go Wrong When You Let an 8 yr Old Choose?) When Abby of Sew Much Ado contacted me about being part of the Pretty in Peplum tour, I jumped on board and then thought it would be fun to let my daughter make all the decisions for this dress. Hindsight…
Sewing for Kindergarten! The X Factor Dress
It’s my turn Sewing for Kindergarten! It feels like it’s been forever since I experimented with fabric, and this was a particularly fun experiment – I’m calling it the X Factor Dress. For the duration of production I wasn’t sure whether the X was going to be a critical factor in its success OR the…
The Breeze Top from Peaches and Peanuts
Shannon is the creative force behind the popular sewing/crafting/momming blog Little Kids Grow and her own pattern shop Peaches and Peanuts. She just released her very first tween pattern, the Breeze Top! I know there’s a huge demand for tween patterns in sewing world, so this will make a lot of you very happy. Although I…
Edelweiss Easter Dresses
In the midst of sewing a bridesmaid dress, being sick, and going on vacation, I managed to just barely whip up three Edelweiss dresses for my kiddos for Easter. And by “whip up”, I mean “slave over for 2 days wishing the whole time I had chosen a knit dress”. The Edelweiss has three separate…