Sometimes you just need a simple, white linen blouse. It's been drizzly and bordering on frigid ever since we got back to Seattle, and I welcomed the idea of sewing a long-sleeve top. I've been saving a breathtakingly beautiful and expensive white linen for years, but I couldn't cut into it for this project. I knew I wanted white, and it most definitely had to be linen, but I was afraid I might make an irreparable mistake and I wasn't sure if I could handle that in my current frazzled …
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Sewing for Me: Camouflaged Coastal Breeze Dress + Giveaway! [CLOSED]
Hey, it's my turn for the Make It Perfect tour! Toni designs comfortable and good-lookin' styles, and I was so excited to try out her patterns. She sent me the paper version of the Coastal Breeze dress, and oh, I love not having to piece together PDF sheets. I seem to always screw up when aligning PDF patterns and various sheets wind up completely off-kilter. Does that ever happen to you? Anyway, I'm a fan of Toni and Make It Perfect! This dress is fantastic. Really, I'm already planning …
Sewing for Me: McCall’s 6751
Ikat. Something happens to me when the temperature rises, and I long to wear ikat. That's a pretty nifty back, right? Can I just tell you that I continuously bias bound the entire top portion all the way around the neckline and the cross over straps and arm holes, and I believe that bias tape was at least 6 feet long? It was taller than me, at any rate (I'm 5'4"). From the front, it looks like a plain ole tank, made in a lovely chevron-patterned ikat that I got from here ages ago: I'm …
Sewing for Me: Tuttle Book Reviews + Giveaway! [CLOSED]
More pictures of me, yes. I'm trying to hold back from apologizing because after a certain point, you just gotta go forth boldly with this whole sewing-for-self-and-taking-selfies-and-posting-them-online gig, even if it feels like your face is plastered all over the place already and giving people nightmares. But I promised the good folks at Tuttle Publishing to review a couple of pre-release Japanese Sewing Books translated into English that they kindly sent me, and here we are. While …
Nani IRO Water Window Wiksten
Riding high on the success of my nani IRO Mountain View dress, I threw myself into an idea I had for another gorgeous piece of nani IRO I got from Miss Matatabi. Yes, that is an exposed zipper. And no, it did not go well. In fact, I can't even show you close-ups because pretty much everything went wrong with this top. This is, I believe, what is called a botch job. But first, is this not the most soothing, neutralicious palette? I just can't get enough of it. It's called Water Window Wata …