Last year Stacey invited some blogging friends to challenge themselves to design fabric for a swap partner and then sew with the Spoonflower fabric the partner had designed for them. Delia and I were paired up, and whaaaat a challenge it turned out to be. I had a baby, we both moved and the timeline…
Sew Fab: Ethan Shirt & Fancy Pants Leggings!
Do you ever have one of those weeks where you have 391,602 things to do but you can’t stop thinking about sewing something completely extraneous and weather-inappropriate? That was me last week. I had the Ethan Shirt from Sis Boom Patterns and the Fancy Pants Leggings from Titchy Threads, AND I had this great…
Sewing for Kindergarten
Today I’m up for Sewing for Kindergarten, a series run by Mie from Sewing like Mad. When she first announced it a few months ago, I was really excited to join in even though my daughter has to wear uniforms to school. It’s hard to get motivated to sew for kids wearing uniforms all day…
KCW Day 3: Return of the Racerback!
For KCW day 3, I thought an obvious choice for my daughter who needs more dresses and my self-imposed Summer of Knits was my very own Racerback Dress! But boy did that backfire. First I messed it up. Yes, I messed up the pattern that I wrote. It happens. Then I had to use the…
The Aegean Swim Cover: A New Pattern
Ok you guys, after three long years, I am pleased to present The Aegean Swim Cover! When I made these simple beach cover ups with towels way back in the summer of twenty oh ten, I had no idea that three years later they would still be one of our most popular posts and one…