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@kgiff, new teacher. I may as well earn a few Brownie points 🙂

@with love Heidi, flexibility but responsibility. Roots and wings, as Jed and I like to say. 🙂

@EllenMCM, it has been so very hot here it seems a bit bonkers to be sewing trousers.

I made a tiny Tea Party for Beatrix today, purely as sewing therapy after the dress for my cousin. It was palate cleanser indeed.

Next up, some nighties for Trixie…[Read more]

@with love Heidi, flexibility but responsibility. Roots and wings, as Jed and I like to say. 🙂

@EllenMCM, it has been so very hot here it seems a bit bonkers to be sewing trousers.

I made a tiny Tea Party for Beatrix today, purely as sewing therapy after the dress for my cousin. It was palate cleanser indeed.

Next up, some nighties for Trixie…[Read more]

I would have used felt and paint. That blue painters paint works well on felt. I do a lot of the costumes for my son’s school and at play time, I feel like I have a full time job sewing. Last year for Hairspray, I made something like 16 dresses as well as a bunch of other pieces. Wouldn’t have been so bad if they weren’t all different sizes…[Read more]

I have made myself three dresses and a lightweight coat last year, so I want to continue to make as many clothes for myself as I can so I don’t have to buy much. I want to perfect fitting and learn bra making. I also want to continue making clothes for my youngest granddaughter but also get into making garments for my two grandsons- bought…[Read more]

I have made myself three dresses and a lightweight coat last year, so I want to continue to make as many clothes for myself as I can so I don’t have to buy much. I want to perfect fitting and learn bra making. I also want to continue making clothes for my youngest granddaughter but also get into making garments for my two grandsons- bought…[Read more]

The second Ottobre blouse is now underway, with the placket all done. It’s a busy week at work, so I’m taking it in small chunks. Sleeves and side seams tomorrow.

Nicole, I have some field trip trousers on my to-do list as well, for my dd who loves her field trip shorts and for my nephew who is two and is refusing to wear anything else. But I’m…[Read more]

The second Ottobre blouse is now underway, with the placket all done. It’s a busy week at work, so I’m taking it in small chunks. Sleeves and side seams tomorrow.

Nicole, I have some field trip trousers on my to-do list as well, for my dd who loves her field trip shorts and for my nephew who is two and is refusing to wear anything else. But I’m…[Read more]

My serger theading method is closer to Nicole’s than to the video’s. That jet air looks dreamy!

I love this thread, by the way. Any video requests for this year?

Nicole, I like that “you can change your mind until it’s cut.” Lots of oppituinty for discussion and working out what you want 🙂
It looks like another day of summer storms. We’ve had about 1 a fortnight here for the last 6 weeks. I don’t rember so many summer storms other years.
I want to sew a small messenger bag, finish my bathers, sew a scarf…[Read more]

Nicole, I like that “you can change your mind until it’s cut.” Lots of oppituinty for discussion and working out what you want 🙂
It looks like another day of summer storms. We’ve had about 1 a fortnight here for the last 6 weeks. I don’t rember so many summer storms other years.
I want to sew a small messenger bag, finish my bathers, sew a scarf…[Read more]

I want to learn to sew with knits and install zippers.

I will sew something for myself that isn’t pajamas:-). The Sorbetto top is on my list if I can figure out how to do the FBA on a one-piece pattern…

@motherof5 wow that is quite the undertaking!

I want to make the Bistro for me.

I need to make 3 pairs of Afterschool pants for my daughter. She loves that pattern and I love that I can fit her no butt, no waist, no hips body so that they actually STAY up and don’t flash butt crack.

I want to take time to really learn from my Craftsy classes to help with fit. (I got Joi’s Fit class, and…[Read more]

Reeni very clever of you. I used to teach a group of boys tap when I was still dancing. It worked the same way but my own lessons were the exchange. Love tap dancing!

This year creative projects include doing up the kids’ bedrooms – painting decorating in their style/preference.
Curtains for every window in the house!
Possibly a reno project but it depends on funds, there is a door in the sewing room that needs to be removed so that I can shift the wardrobe up a bit and put the doors on. We decorated the sewing…[Read more]

I have so many projects to get to! a dear cousin-in-law is expecting after almost 8 years of trying, so it was a great excuse to buy the Lullaby Layette pattern; she’s interested in cloth diapering so there’s those too.
story of my life, i can never resist the remnant pile especially in the NY garment district… I buy random 5/8ths with no ideas…[Read more]

@Reeni, very smart!

haha not entirely altruistic! i like having an excuse to learn new crafty things and don’t often back down from a challenge. It started a few years ago; I was late signing dd up for recital and said that I’d take any extra costume they had and make it fit… from there they asked me to make 15 little Red Riding Hoods, then 6 Salt n Pepa silver…[Read more]