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A Love Dress

Another dress finished to wear to Quilt Market in a couple of weeks! You might recall the Typewriters Dress that I finished last week, using Kay Whitt's Serendipity Studio Monique Dress pattern (with a circle skirt substituted). I made 2 additional dresses, and this is one of them (the other I'll photograph for you another day, I was sort of disgusted with...

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Typewriters Dress

  Here is my Ruby Star Typewriters dress! After much unnecessary work and getting sidetracked, it is finished! This is one of the dresses that I'm going to wear to Quilt Market next month, and I'm so happy with the way it came out, it fits like a glove and is comfortable besides! The pattern that I used was the Monique Dress from...

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Kids Shorts

I hope everyone had a great holiday weekend! I sewed up my kids some shorts as part of their Easter things. It was sort of funny, because they picked out the fabrics for the shorts a few weeks ago, and every so often they'd walk by my ironing board and ask where the shorts were (my sewing to-do list...

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Hello Kitty Circle Skirt

My daughter really loves ballerina skirts and things that are girly, so I decided to make her a skirt for Christmas. Kids are sort of fickle with their tastes, and I had purchased this Christmas Hello Kitty fabric last year on clearance at Joann's, not even knowing that she would love Hello Kitty this year or that it would...

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Sis Boom Angie Dress

I was very honored to be able to test the Sis Boom Angie Dress. It was a very quick sew, and I had a lot of fun making it (plus the fabric is really cute!!).Sis Boom Angie DressFabric - I used 2 yards of Sis Boom Marnie (from the Poodle line) in Fuchsia. To make the bias trim on the...

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Ruffled Hobo Bag and a Book Review

I'm rolling out the book reviews lately! I'm sure you think I'm just saying this (it's really quite true), but another of my top 3 sewing pattern designers! It's Kay Whitt from Serendipity Studio! Her new book is called Sew Serendipity Bags. Her first book, Sew Serendipity, was all about clothes, and this one, as the title might lead you to believe,...

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