Lara\’s Primrose Peplum is a perfect date night top with those adorable (and on-trend!) sleeves! She\’s since made a second version of this pattern and I love her concept of \”make and replace\” where she makes a similar item to one in her closet and donates the rtw one. Something to strive for! More dramatic…
Archives for February 2017
Early Spring (Ginger Jeans)
This post is brought to you as part of the Indiesew Blogger network. Thank you to Indiesew for providing the fabric! Last fall I did something super scary to me: I made jeans! Indiesew was stocking some amazing denim, and the Birkin Flares were already in my cart, and then they also had a jeans…
Girl Gang Style (McCall\’s 7549)
Thank you to McCall Pattern Company for providing the pattern and material for this post. I recently took you through a whole long ordeal re: my personal style and how I was going to try and stick to a palette of creams and blushes and lavender and go for a \”ladylike\” and \”polished\” look now…
Quilting Leather and Construction Details/Changes (McCall\’s 7549)
Since I\’m taking on a big project with two new-to-me skills–quilting and sewing leather–I thought I\’d share a bit of my learning process with y\’all. I rarely publish whole posts about works-in-progress–it\’s not as pretty or glamorous as completed outfits–but it\’s nice to do so every once in a while, especially when it\’s something a…
Quilting Leather and Construction Details/Changes (McCall\’s 7549)
Since I\’m taking on a big project with two new-to-me skills–quilting and sewing leather–I thought I\’d share a bit of my learning process with y\’all. I rarely publish whole posts about works-in-progress–it\’s not as pretty or glamorous as completed outfits–but it\’s nice to do so every once in a while, especially when it\’s something a…