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Clipper Shorts Sew Along :: Fashion Show
The Clipper Shorts Sew Along is a wrap! Â Thank you so much for sewing along with me – I can’t wait to see the shorts you’ve made. Today is a little runway fashion show starring two of the three pairs of Clipper Shorts I made for the sew along. Â I made all of them the {…Continue Reading}
Clipper Shorts Sew Along :: Day 4
It’s the last sewing day of the Clipper Shorts Sew Along!  You should have the shorts constructed and ready for the waistband. Check back for Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 posts if you need to catch up. The rest is easy – just adding the waistband, inserting the elastic and hemming! Waistband Step 45: If adding {…Continue Reading}
Clipper Shorts Sew Along :: Day 3
We’re halfway done with the Clipper Shorts Sew Along!  If you’re following along you should have the front of your shorts completed. Check back for Day 1 and Day 2 posts if you need to catch up. Dun-dun-dun!!!  Today is mostly about those welt pockets!  We’ll also get the shorts back ready and sew the front and {…Continue Reading}
Clipper Shorts Sew Along :: Day 2
Welcome back for the second day of the Clipper Shorts Sew Along!  Did you get your fabrics cut out yesterday, and construct the pieced shorts if you’re using that option?  Check the post for Day 1 if you need to catch up. Today is constructing the fly for the different options on the Clipper Shorts: we’ll talk {…Continue Reading}
Clipper Shorts Sew Along :: Day 1
Welcome to the first day of the Clipper Shorts Sew Along! Today we’re going to talk about cutting fabrics for the different options, and constructing the pieced shorts if you’re using that option. Â I’ve made three different pairs of Clipper Shorts for the sew along, ranging from the simplest with no fly and no pockets, {…Continue Reading}
Clipper Shorts :: Pattern Release
I have another pattern release to announce!  The Clipper Shorts have set sail to join the Schooner Tee & Dress released in April.  The Clipper Shorts have launched with great fanfare, filling a need for a more classic styled short for kids. Unisex and sized for children newborn through 12 years, the Clipper Shorts have a range {…Continue Reading}
Pattern Tour ::The Fighter Tee
As soon as Kelly of Handmade Boy asked me to join the pattern tour for the Fighter Tee I was in!  You see, I would have joined her for darn near anything, but when she mentioned it was a fundraising project I was even more on board. Kelly is participating in a St. Jude Run as {…Continue Reading}
Pattern Review :: Jalie Éléonore
The first pattern I sewed in my pattern review and comparison of women’s stretch woven pull-on pants are Jalie Éléonore Pull-on Jeans.  You can click back to the muslin stage of all four patterns in my muslin post to catch up.  I’m going in order of pattern label alphabetically and that’s how I will present the information in the {…Continue Reading}
Muslining :: Women’s Stretch Woven Pull-on Pants
I have my variety of leggings and popover tunics, I thought next it would be fun to make some almost real pants.  By almost I mean not “real” jeans with a zip fly or structured pants, but what I’ll classify as woven pull-on pants.  I had made pair of pants previously that fell into this category, {…Continue Reading}
