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…
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adventures in drafting // self-striping
dress: self-drafted // shoes: Seychelles **Photos should hopefully be fixed now! No, not like sock yarn. Like when you go crazy and decide to make your own striped fabric. In my defense I really tried to find navy and white striped fabric and just couldn’t. At the beginning of this…
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adventures in drafting – Christmas dress
I finally had a chance to take pictures of this year’s Christmas dress! This one was my final project for my pattern drafting class last semester and I’m completely smitten. I had some trouble getting started because the twee small child in me wanted to take my newfound knowledge of…
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Adventures in drafting – sherpa vest
A few months ago my sister called me to FaceTime after a particularly successful shopping trip and showed me this adorable little sherpa vest she’d bought. I immediately fell in love with it and pestered her for the next two weeks to take photos of it from a multitude of angles…
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On perfect fabrics falling out of the sky (not literally)
Sometimes I’ll have a project in mind and will search high and low and not be able to find the right fabric for it. When I was making my Betty Draper dress for the Mad Men party I went to, I literally spent hours perusing eBay and fabric.com and went…