We’re half way through summer and we’ve just had the warmest week on record in my neck of the woods. We smashed through multiple records, including the all time record on multiple days and if I read one more sensation piece about it that doesn’t […]
Hello makers, I thought it was about time I’d show my face here again. I hadn’t planned to stay away for 3 months. I had a couple blog post in the works when I wrote my last blog posts, some of which were largely written […]
Hello 2019, and happy new year blog friends! Well, I don’t know about you but to me it feels both wildly overdue and impossible at the same time to have arrived at a brand new year. Instead of trying to make sense of it all […]
Makers, I did it! I started my bra making journey! Buckle up, this is going to be a long ride. If you’ve been following me for a while you know that learning how to make a bra has been passively on my goals list for […]
Hey team! I’m back with my final project for the Summer of Basics, the Kalle shirtdress. As I predicted in my previous post, I didn’t manage to write a blogpost about the dress before the deadline, but I did put up a picture on my […]
My second project for the Summer of Basic was going to be a linen jumpsuit and I went with the Yari jumpsuit by True Bias. My goal for the Summer of Basics was to make some hot weather clothing as the two unusually hot months […]
My first item for the summer of basics was supposed to be the Ninni culottes by Named, and low and behold: I stuck to that plan! Here they are! I’ll be honest, when culottes made their (re)appearance in fashion and by extension in the sewing world […]
Hello friends! I meant to get this post out sooner, but I was floored by the the worst flu I’ve had in years which knocked me out for two weeks. Before that, my cat died unexpectedly and it took me a couple of weeks to […]
Today I got another sewing project to show you. This project needs a bit of a back story though: About a year ago I made a dress, in this really cool flower print corduroy fabric. I had a vision of a shift dress that just […]
Part of the reason to have this blog is to have log of everything I make. Yet, I almost didn’t blog about this latest project. Not that I consider the project a failure, quite the opposite. However, the project is a simple T-shirt, and I […]
