Or, more accurately, I need to talk about my shoulders. To myself. Because this. But look, this was my second…
Laurel-ized Marfy: Adventures in workdresses.
I wanted to make a couple of easy dresses for work. And I wanted these dresses to have sleeves to…
How to repair a coat with a thrift store sweater.
I mean, a thrift store sweater and all of your free time. So my husband has a coat that is many years…
2015: Sewing Goals and Slowing Down
2014 had a lot of things: There was sewing and wedding dress making and other dress making and wedding planning and Amtrak…
Also Not a Halloween Costume: I Made a Cape, and I Wear It.
This is Vogue 8776, a cape! Let’s get the most important thing out of the way first here: If…
Six Months Later: Wedding Dress Wrap-Up
This post is a long (long) time coming. But we’re at the half-year mark in our marriage and so I…
Wrapper’s Delight: Vogue 8930
I was probably watching too much Scandal or something back in the late summer/early fall, because I had it in…
The Neverending Wrap Dress: Vogue 8827
Doesn’t this woman look classy. Try as I might, though, no dress is going to flatten my chest and cause…
Beginner Sewist Coatmaking: Thoughts on Butterick 5822
I’ve been in tedium town all morning since I got out of bed at mid-day, pinning and ironing and sewing…
Mr Roboto Dress: This Was Not a Halloween Costume
I was, perhaps, inappropriately enthusiastic about making a dress out of some wool/silk blend I’d picked up at Fabric Mart.…
wasted weekends 