• Lacy skater

    March 24, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made, pattern here // belt: thrifted // boots: Boutique9 My Master’s thesis-y capstone paper thing is due in exactly eight days. Not scary at all. Actually, I’m nearly done. All the tough writing stuff is done, I just have to go through and fix some formatting, do some last-minute…

  • Sew Fun Giveaway winner!

    March 23, 2014 - By 

    First of all, thanks so much for everyone who participated and shared their stories of crafting as children. It was so much fun to read! There were so many different kinds of craft stuff I had completely forgotten about (like FIMO! and friendship bracelets!) Anyway, time to announce the winner…

  • Elisadots

    March 19, 2014 - By 

    dress: self-made, pattern here, fabric here // shoes: Swedish Hasbeens // glasses: Bonlook // watch: Fossil We’ve all had our fair share of adventures in fitting. Sometimes patterns fit really great right out of the package and sometimes a lot of tweaking is involved. Some of us learn how to…

  • Sew Fun: book review + giveaway!

    March 17, 2014 - By 

    Sew Fun by Deborah Fisher Interweave/F+W Media; $26.99 When I was little I was always doing various craft projects. One year my family spent a summer in Beijing living in a hotel and boredom led to my creating an entire wardrobe out of tissues for my various Barbie dolls. Spoiler alert:…

  • Peplos

    March 15, 2014 - By 

    My sister and I often joke about how living together would save us a ton of money because we own so much of the same stuff. Despite having entirely different styles at least a third of our wardrobes are identical and, off the top of my head, we also have…