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DC Area Sewists: Come Put A BIG Bow On It!

March 8, 2013 By crafterhours 11 Comments

Are you in DC? Or Northern Virginia? Or Maryland? Or somewhere nearby-ish and planning to be even nearer on March 23? Come join me! Let me tell you what I’m inviting you to do– after I tell you how it came about. The strangest thing happened at Alt. I’d link here to my Alt recap…… 

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Filed Under: dress Tagged With: dress, fun, sew-a-long

KCWC: Autumn Outfit

September 27, 2010 By crafterhours 14 Comments

This is the last thing I made for the Kids Clothes Week Challenge.  Sorry I’m a day behind schedule in posting, but I had to skip last Friday due to uncooperative models :) The pants are chocolate brown velveteen, made using Rae‘s Big Butt Baby Pants pattern (in case you haven’t bought it yet, do… 

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KCWC: Denim-ish Skirt

September 26, 2010 By crafterhours 15 Comments

I originally made this skirt a few weeks ago as part of my Fall Wardrobe sewing series.  Z needed an essential denim skirt, but I wanted something with a little movement, so I chose chambray instead.  Chambray has a denim look, but it is super thin and works more like a linen.  It has the… 

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KCWC: Derainbowfication, Part 2

September 25, 2010 By crafterhours 20 Comments

Here are the results of Z’s derainbowfication.  Not the girliest of dresses, but with her major map obsession, quite appropriate.   And educational too! (as long as you still recognize the USSR) I just applique’d the continents around the hem of the dress (-Antarctica, + New Zealand) and added the little compass rose at the… 

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Filed Under: dress Tagged With: applique, dress, Our Favorite Pattern, sew-a-long

KCWC: Derainbowfication

September 23, 2010 By crafterhours 22 Comments

De-Rainbow-fication.  Yeah, it’s a word. Yesterday I finished derainbowfying P’s dress.  If you remember, the originals looked like this: And now P’s looks like this: Unfortunately, I had a very uncooperative model, so I snapped these pictures really quickly before realizing I was in manual mode and hadn’t changed my camera settings.  So they’re way… 

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Filed Under: dress Tagged With: dress, Our Favorite Pattern, refashion, sew-a-long

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