It’s Day 2 of the tester’s pattern tour for the release of the Matinée pattern.  Before I share my tester’s lovely versions, I wanted to talk to you about the features of the pattern itself: Beginning with the pattern title page with these fabulously adorable watercolors I commissioned from Dandyroo Designs on Etsy.  Candace took {…Continue Reading}
Yay!! It’s Day 4 of Kids Clothes Week and I have my first finish! Arden is doing a happy dance with me – or rather, she’s “shimmying” as she likes to call it. I can only guess she learned it in dance class? I had hoped to be a little further at this point, but {…Continue Reading}
One of the added challenges of participating in Kids Clothes Week for me is that I work Monday – Wednesday, so that means I’m doing my hour of sewing well after dark and the kids are in bed. This equates to crappy late night photos of a hanging garment that I post to Instagram hoping {…Continue Reading}
If you read my plans for KCW, you saw that I was planning to pretest my Matinée Dress using some great Michael Miller fabric. Happily, I’m not pretesting my Matinée Dress; it’s in testing right now – and they’re killing it!  I’m fulfilling my plans and making a dress with the fabric.  It is turning out soooo {…Continue Reading}
When I hit publish yesterday for my call for testers, I was soooo worried that it would be like crickets chirping…. But it hasn’t!! Your responses and support have been incredibly overwhelming! I’m so happy that so many of you are volunteering to test my first baby dress pattern. I’m planning to select testers this {…Continue Reading}
**Selection closed** Thanks so much for everyone who signed up.Folks, I’m finally ready to test my first garment pattern! I’ve been working, working behind the scenes to get my Matinée Dress ready to go. With a lot of help from Lauren Dahl’s Pattern Workshop course (affiliate link), I’ve been able to get it close enough to {…Continue Reading}
