My friend and I throw this party every year. She doesn’t sew but is very artistic so we like to make costumes together. The past few years, we’ve basically come up with party themes based on what kind of dresses/costumes/outfits we want to make. This year’s was A Midsummer Night’s Dream.…
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adventures in patterndrafting // mystery fabric contest 2017
This dress was kind of a beast. It was unwieldy and not very nice at times. It also kind of had a mind of its own but I mostly managed to wrangle it into submission with a lot of hand-stitching. But let’s start at the beginning. I had two main…
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mystery fabric contest 2017
I’ve been a little absent from the interwebs the past several weeks and here is the reason why. My school does a mystery fabric contest every year (here’s last year’s entry). The rules are pretty simple. You pick a random bundle of fabric that’s all wrapped up and labeled with…
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Mary poppins
Ever since I started to discover that things I had once thought were impossible (jeans, bras, jackets, etc.) were actually totally within the realm of possibility, I’ve wanted to make a bag. I did make one bag a while ago that was cute but not exactly practical for my lifestyle…
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Snoqualmie
cardigan: Snoqualmie by Michele Wang, pattern here // shirt: Grainline Archer, pattern here // legwarmers: pattern here Snoqualmie is done! (Semi-related: I’m pretty sure every single time I’ve typed “snoqualmie” it’s come out “snog.” Every single time.) Anyway, I did this one for Heather’s Snoqualmie Knit-along last year. I started knitting it…