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Awww, thank you Melani and Shelley.
I agree, I think denim maketh the jeans, not just the pattern.

Field trips with double knees for a 2 year old 🙂

My new Macbook has arrived (skips and dances around the room)
Now I just need Hugo to get home from footy practice to set it up for me…..

Missed you guys so much!

My new Macbook has arrived (skips and dances around the room)
Now I just need Hugo to get home from footy practice to set it up for me…..

Missed you guys so much!

I have proof!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16997244571/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16375747654/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16998127915/in/photostream/

I have proof!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16997244571/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16375747654/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16998127915/in/photostream/

I have proof!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16997244571/
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16375747654/

I have proof!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/justsewit_tk/16997244571/

I have just done the buttonholes on the “spelling bee” bubble and will sit down to sew the buttons on. I am currently wrestling with a stubbon self covered button and have to construct its partner. This will go on a denim teaparty dress I made yesterday and finished this morning – the thing is so stiff it stands up by itself! I have already made…[Read more]

I have just done the buttonholes on the “spelling bee” bubble and will sit down to sew the buttons on. I am currently wrestling with a stubbon self covered button and have to construct its partner. This will go on a denim teaparty dress I made yesterday and finished this morning – the thing is so stiff it stands up by itself! I have already made…[Read more]

@sayiamyou I LOVED those red skinny Sketchbook jeans of Nicole’s. They’re soooooo good.
I think almost any pattern can look jeans-ish if you use denim, an appropriate topstitching colour and do something jeans-esque to the back pocket. At least that’s my theory.
I was thinking maybe back pocket decoration might be a good idea for an Oliver + S…[Read more]

The Afterschool ones are super cute. I think that’s the look I am going for. Will try it and report back.

Now to find some denim that’s not too stiff for an active little boy…maybe some stretch!

This Drew has a wide neckline. Does it really need a full button back packat? Or could you do a small keyhole at the back instead. Then, you just make a lining skirt and stress skirt separately with French seams. Then baste then together at the top to attach to the yoke.

Yes, that is an ambitious stack. Timing is everything in this, because these original pattern are summery ones. And they go through several sizes a year at this age, so we’re lucky to hit sizes 5 in the summer. Realistically, I’m sewing/buying 6 for everything else so they last longer, but size 5 fits so I’m doing a couple of these for sentimental…[Read more]

The popover sundress with straps instead of ties. In fact, that’s how I’d alter the class picnic – use bias to bind the armholes and creat straps all in one. That would be simpler.

I think badminton would be great too, if you have that pattern. But it would also be pretty easy to add cute ruffles to the popover dress.

A super pretty nightgown…[Read more]

I haven’t tried it, but the sailboat sounds cute for a 2 year old.

I recently used the Sketchbook for jeans for my daughter: https://www.flickr.com/photos/79480359@N03/14699004800/
And After School for my son:https://www.flickr.com/photos/79480359@N03/8668350104/
But my all time favourites were made by mixing the After School back with a modified Field Trip front:…[Read more]

Sorry all of you who are waiting. We can’t even announce the new patterns yet because someone (I won’t say who…) is spending this week enjoying some wonderful spring skiing in Utah, and he has to finish photographing the samples and editing the modeled photos once he gets home later this week. He’ll be working over the holiday weekend to get…[Read more]

I’ve sewn the sandbox and after school pants in denim several times and have been happy with the results. Nicole has altered the sketchbook shorts to pants and has done a bang up job of owning that pattern. Search “sketchbook” on her blog and you’ll be in for a treat.…[Read more]