How amazing were all the outfits for the Matinee Pattern Tour? Â Today I wanted to make up a little recap so you could see everything all at once and reference back to everyone’s post about their Matinee. baste & gather | handmade frenzy | our family four | rock the stitch call ajaire |Â handmade {…Continue Reading}
Hooray! Â It’s time to begin the Matinee Pattern Tour! Â I have a jam-packed tour to bring you with loads of talented sewists and lots of variations of the pattern. First up is Lauren of Baste & Gather. Â You might also be familiar with Lauren from Pattern Workshop, or Selvage Designs. Â It was Lauren’s courses {…Continue Reading}
Guys, I am so excited to announce the Matinee Dress and Peplum Top pattern tour! Â Right after I released the pattern, I had a tester tour, and weren’t they all amazing?! Now I’ve invited a whole bunch of my sewing blogger friends to sew up the pattern, and you won’t believe the amazing line up! {…Continue Reading}
It’s the last day of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée, and I’m really going to miss getting to see everyone’s amazing work each day!  Haven’t they all been spectacular? Today we have a special treat for you – “we” being one of my fab-o testers Shelly, who has a stellar fabric store on Etsy. {…Continue Reading}
Today I’m at SNAP! Conference in Salt Lake City, so I’ll get straight to my amazing testers’ versions!: Stacey with From a Box made this cool peplum version with cap sleeves, and proved me wrong that the hem band was only for the dress!  I love how it pulls the sash fabric down to the bottom.  Paired {…Continue Reading}
It’s Day 3 of the testers’ pattern tour for the Matinée release.  Today I’d like to take the opportunity to share how this design evolved. The first time you would have seen the Matinée Dress was when I was competing in Sew-Vivor on Family Ever After.  The challenge was simply “Emerald”, which left the door wide open {…Continue Reading}
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}
I am SOOO excited (and a little exhausted) that this day has arrived! Â I have released my first garment pattern. Â It is now available on both Etsy and on Craftsy – see those little boxes on the right? Â Yup, just click on those and they’ll take you to my Etsy shop, or my Craftsy Pattern {…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}
