• Christmas dress

    A couple months ago I got my hands on an old retired wool kilt, and made plans to rip it apart to make something out of it. I figured I’d have enough for jacket or skirt, and then realized that I would never wear a plaid jacket and dropped that…

  • Pants class – skinny jeans

    jeans: self-drafted // sweater: hand-knitted These are the jeans I drafted for my pants drafting class! I’m so so thrilled with these jeans. The only jeans pattern I’d tried before were the Jamie jeans by Named, which I adored, but only after I made tons of changes to the fit,…

  • Adventures in drafting – overalls

    I was sooo sad when my pants drafting class ended. Huge sad face. The class was taught by Lynda Maynard (who also taught the Copying RTW class I took over the summer) and it was so much fun and I feel like a master of crotch fit now. That sounds…

  • Adventures in drafting // linen dragons

    This top completely unintentionally reminds me of Daenerys from Game of Thrones. I originally set out to copycat this top from Urban Outfitters and decided to use the leftover linen from my Mystery Fabric Contest dress. Somehow I ended up with a cute summery top that totally looks like something Khaleesi…

  • Adventures in patterndrafting // tent labeling

    dress: self-drafted // shoes: Seychelles Dutch Label Shop sent me custom labels to try out free of charge, and all opinions, drafting errors, and leg injuries are my own. I have a bit of a ridiculous obsession with tent dresses. I blame Lauren and 90% of Keiko Lynn‘s wardrobe. Anyway, when…