Project Round-Up for March 2020 (or so)
I’ve done a bunch of projects in the past three weeks that haven’t made it onto this blog, and I want to include them here for posterity because they have…
I’ve done a bunch of projects in the past three weeks that haven’t made it onto this blog, and I want to include them here for posterity because they have…
As something to pass the time during the COVID-19 pandemic "physical distancing" weeks, I have started making videos about sewing. The first few were Facebook Live broadcasts of some projects,…
I took a little hiatus from the tweed dress project because I was getting stressed out by the sleeves and all the other unknowns. But now that COVID-19 has descended…
No, we’re fucking not. And if I ask again, I’m gonna pull this car over... I am running low on patience. Actually, I didn’t do much work on the dress…
Yeah I did. What do dresses need? POCKETS. What does this dress have? LINED, PIPED POCKETS. I’m going to leave this photo LARGE because POCKETS deserve close-ups. They are basted…
I started this evening’s sewing a little past 7:30, having had a friend over for wine & chats. She amusingly compared my sewing efforts to an agile project management approach,…
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I am getting pretty dang tired of looking at this dress. But at the same time, making progress ... just ever so slowly. An excellent colour,…
Well, I knew that this dress would have to be sewn slowly because of the pattern-matching, but I did not anticipate the delays I’ve had today. I went out to…
I haven’t gone to this length to preview a dress in ages. I’ve basically cut apart all of the fashion fabric pieces and pinned them together on my dress form…
Here comes another dress! Because having 30 in my wardrobe just isn’t enough, right? Actually, I love wearing dresses and I wear them all the time to work, so it’s…