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Tumble Tee

Today, I'm taking part in the Tumble Tee Tour for my friend Rachael's pdf sewing pattern for the Tumble Tee, a knit shirt/dress for girls sizes 6 months to 10 years.I chose to make size five for my daughter, and that size printed out 12 pages that I needed to trim and tape together to get the full-sized pattern pieces. From...

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Quilt Market: Serendipity Studio and Giveaway!

This giveaway is now closed. The winner is #180 Cathy K!One of the booths that I simply could not leave Quilt Market without seeing was the booth for Serendipity Studio. I actually walked up to the information booth and asked (I was incredibly unprepared this time around...I left my packet of booth numbers at home, in addition to my make-up,...

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Tula Pink Space Dust: Quilt Market Dress #2

So, as my previous post mentioned, I needed something cool to wear to Quilt Market. I'm not sure you can get any more rockstar-ish than cutting up your own quilt (kind of like busting up your favorite guitar at the end of the show). But that's what I did.Here's the story. My original plan, back in time when Fall...

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Quilt Market Dress #1: Vinyl Records

So I was doing nothing on the computer right before the weekend, when I realized out of the blue that I didn't have anything to wear to Quilt Market this week. Can't wear something that I've already worn there, can I?! Nope.Thank goodness for the "garment stash". Yes, I do have a portion of my stash dedicated to 2-3...

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Colette Macaron Nightshade Dress

I made this Tula Pink Nightshade dress last night. Have you seen the Nightshade fabrics?! Hello!! She also has another line coming out this month called The Birds and the Bees (which is super awesome too!). The pattern is the Colette Macaron. Because I was in a big 'ole hurry, I maybe made things harder for myself than they had to be....

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Sewing Back-to-School: Garment Facings

This post is part of the Sewing Back-to-School series, 30 days of helpful sewing articles by guest bloggers. Feel free to check out the original Sewing Back-to-School post for schedule and previous posts! Kay is an extremely talented sewing pattern designer. Not only does she design bags, but clothing as well! You can...

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The Colette Diaries

Colette 'Eclair Dress', and rockin' some handmade bags! So I've decided to embark on a pretty ambitious project. My goal is to make all of the Colette Patterns, from easiest to hardest. I made the Eclair Dress earlier this year, and the instructions and design are just phenomenal.The designer of these patterns, Sarai Mitnick, has provided me...

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Giveaway: Cynthia Rowley Sewing Patterns

I went through my box of sewing patterns recently, to organize them into my new Amy Butler tool caddy that my mom got for me at Marshall's. I filtered through some patterns that I might not get to, including these 4 clothing sewing patterns by Cynthia Rowley.If you participated in the Jamie Dress Sew Along, perhaps you have the confidence to make...

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Would you make a dress with me??

Whenever I post my finished projects to my blog, there's usually the feedback comments that come along with them. "Good job!" or "I love it!" or "That's great fabric!".But for some reason, when I post pictures of clothing, namely dresses, I feel like a vast majority of the responses contain some form of, "I wish I could make clothes...

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Colette Patterns Eclair Dress

I could not wait to show you this dress and tell you about the process of sewing it! I apologize for the bad pictures, I just don't think it would work going outside in a strapless dress to take pictures in the snow, lol. I still cannot believe I made a dress like this...I mean, I've made dresses before,...

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Thrift Store Fabrics for Sewing

Two twin-sized bed sheets ($6)I was reading some of the blogs that I follow after the kids got up from their nap, and Emmmy Lizzzy's post about vintage pillowcases stuck in my head (go there! She's also having a giveaway!). So tonight when my husband suggested we go out for dinner, instead of a sit-down restaurant, I asked if we could...

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Giveaway Winner! Dress Progess!

The winners of the Betsy Ross sewing patterns are Becky for the bag pattern and BillieBee for the skirt, who commented that she wanted to make a skirt for her granddaughter!And here's my sneak peak of the Colette sewing pattern that I'm working on right now...this is going to be the strapless dress with the beautiful back tie. My grandmother helped me fit it the...

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