We’re at the halfway point of the Naples Dress blog tour; haven’t they been amazing so far?? Up first today is a Rachel from Handcrafted by RED. Â Rachel has been with me on almost every pattern I’ve tested and you can see her daughter in the pattern on the page with the line drawings. {…Continue Reading}
Wasn’t yesterday’s kickoff to the Naples Dress blog tour fun? Â Today we’re continuing with three more stops, but first I have something fun to share! Today I’m guest posting on Project Run & Play with a quick tutorial to show how to draft a collar for a bodice. Â While I was working on that post, {…Continue Reading}
Woohoo! Â It’s here, it’s here! Â The Naples Dress blog tour begins today and goes through Friday. Â There’s a discount, a giveaway (read all the way to the bottom!), and lots and lots of Naples dresses and tunics! Â Art Gallery Fabrics has generously sponsored the tour, providing fabrics to the tour participants and also to the {…Continue Reading}
Earlier today I loaded the Doll Naples Dress and Tunic pattern and the dolly and me bundled pattern into my shop and Etsy. Â I’ll get to Craftsy shortly, but I’m out of steam at the moment. It has all the features of the girls’ Naples Dress pattern with the exclusion of the wide tie and {…Continue Reading}
I published the Pip Skirt tutorial over a year and a half ago, and since then it’s been downloaded almost 2,000 times. Unfortunately, there was an error in the dimensions for sizes 7 and up. Â The discrepancies in the larger sizes was brought to my attention a couple of days ago. Â I can only assume {…Continue Reading}
You know by now that I am a fan of Terri from Sew Straight & Gather’s patterns. Â It began with the Uptown/Downtown Dress, then the Cousu Collection with the top and trousers turned shorts, back to Uptown/Downtown for myself, and now her most recent release, the Legends Top and Dress. I jumped right on buying {…Continue Reading}
Today’s post is brought to you by the lovely Eleena Dress pattern by Coffee & Thread.  The Eleena Dress is Olga’s latest pattern, and not the first I’ve sewn.  I previously shared the Antalya Dress I made for Arden last summer.  In the interim, Kid Approved became Coffee & Thread. The Eleena Dress is for girls {…Continue Reading}
It’s LIVE! Â Just before midnight last night, I published the Naples Dress and Tunic pattern. Phew! Â Let me tell you – even with a really smooth test and no self-inflicted deadline, it’s still nerve-racking and a ton of work getting a pattern published. Â I’m so thankful my littles let me get a little extra rest {…Continue Reading}
Don’t you love those projects where the fabric and design just seem like they were meant for each other? Â This pairing was definitely one of those projects! Â I’m happy to be participating in the Coastline Fabric Tour with Sharon Holland Designs for Art Gallery Fabrics. This is the Tropical Breeze print on voile substrate. Â I’ve {…Continue Reading}
My intention with the Tiny Sewists series was to keep all the projects gender neutral so it would remain inclusive. Recently, Arden and I made a video of her sewing a Pip Skirt for her turn as the Star of the Week at her elementary school. Â She had the choice of doing a live demonstration {…Continue Reading}
