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Something Other Than Sewing.... 31 May 2013 | 12:03 am
I often find myself getting involved in projects that inevitably become a bit of an obsession....home repairs, sewing, roller derby....but one thing I never really cared for was gardening. In our yar...
Finally, a Finished Top 28 May 2013 | 12:01 am
Finally, I have a finished shirt. In the previous post, I reviewed all the alterations that I did in order to get BurdaStyle 12.2011.107 to fit....and really could probably have just drawn my own pat...
Alterations, Alterations, and More Alterations 26 May 2013 | 08:14 pm
Let's get this party started, shall we? I think I am going to split this project into two posts because the alterations are JUST THAT EXTENSIVE. Really, I probably could have spent less time just dr...
Alterations, Part One 21 May 2013 | 03:33 am
I currently have about three different blog posts "cooking," all of them having to do with altering patterns. I finally made myself sit down and FINISH one of them I have been spending far too much ...
Back Again...This Time with Hats 24 Apr 2013 | 01:46 am
And once again I have become the worst blogger in the entire world. I have to apologize, it isn't that I haven't been working on anything, but that I just have not been in the mood to photograph ever...
A Simple Shirt 24 Mar 2013 | 06:03 pm
Today I decided that I just wanted to make something fast and easy...so I set aside the button-down shirt that I was working on and decided to make a pullover instead. Kwik Sew 3635 had been sitting ...
New Sewing Room Furniture 16 Feb 2013 | 10:23 pm
Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome back! Like I mentioned in the previous post, one of the reasons that I hadn't been sewing anything was because the room was such a disaster. I had eleven, E...
Renewed Adventures...Including My First Attempt at Deciphering a Russian Pattern 11 Feb 2013 | 02:39 am
So it's been over half a year since I posted anything here, I am ashamed to say that the reason is that for most of that time, I had not done ANYTHING of interest in the sewing room. But, over the Ch...
Finally Finished.... 10 Jun 2012 | 09:57 pm
I finally finished the Liberty shirt, made from the fabric that I was scared to death to cut into. I finally sucked it up and cut it, and then of course let it sit for a while before I sewed it, stil...
Running in Place 24 May 2012 | 12:36 am
Last week I made progress on some projects, but at the same time it felt very unproductive, hence the title of this blog. I think it was because I was mainly working on tracing patterns, making alter...
