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}
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}
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}
While my sewing table was being used as a temporary island countertop in our new kitchen, I took the time to cut out a couple of patterns to sew up – one of them was another Cocoon Dress by Groovy Baby and Mama. Â The first two Cocoon Dresses I made just before Christmas are already {…Continue Reading}
In fits and starts and stolen moments, I’ve been able to put together the pattern for the Plié Bag. I made the prototype to send to quilt market for Hayley Crouse’s Color Me display with Michael Miller.  It’s a simple bag, sized for kids to be able to toss their goodies (dance gear?) in and go. {…Continue Reading}
Coffee is good.  Getting together with friends to drink coffee is better.  Since moving to New Jersey, the latter has become more elusive, since I’m still making local friends.  Enter the Wear to Where series hosted by Katy of Wild and Wanderful and Angelica of Gardening in High Heels, and I had the perfect opportunity to {…Continue Reading}
We’re at it again! Â This Spring a bunch of designers got the crazy idea of swapping patterns and we had so much fun we set up another round of Designer Pattern Swap. Â Last time I made the Iridis Dress by Sofilantjes and Arden still loves wearing that dress. This time I got to choose a {…Continue Reading}
I’m so glad I started preparing for Halloween last week, because I spent quite a bit of time working on the dresses for my Happy Gnomes! Â First, did you know that gnomes come in pairs? Â That little detail was what sold the girls on the costume idea since they’re always playing and pretending they’re twins. {…Continue Reading}
