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You know how sometimes you have a sewing project in which every mistake that you can make, you do? Dear Readers, this poor skirt. I tortured this fabric to within an inch of its selvedge. That it exists now as a skirt is testament mostly to my stubbornness. I bought this (mariner cloth? This isContinue reading “A Murphy’s Law Project (Burda 3/16 Skirt 101 Take 2)”

Back in my ignorant youth, I would roundly ignore the ends tables at Fabricland. Why would I bother? I wondered. Clearly the ends table was where they stuck all the crap they hadn’t been able to sell previously, and it would be ugly and awful. I can’t remember how it happened, but one day IContinue reading “Burda 6431: an actual completed 2018 Make Nine project”

Preamble to prologue: I owe you all a Miss Bossy post, I know, but April kicked my butt three ways from Sunday and I’m still working on the dress. It is coming, and I will post it. In the meantime, lots of other things are done and ready to share. Just in case you wereContinue reading “Burda 6417: In Which 2-Way Stretch Means 4-Way Stretch”

This is made from a polyester charmeuse, which isn’t something I normally go for, but it was so soft and drapey and didn’t feel plastic-y at all. And when I saw the December 2017 Burda blouse, it seemed like the perfect match. Of course, it took me four months to sew it up. But hereContinue reading “Burda 12/17 Blouse #105”

Is this pink or red? Can I claim that it’s red so obviously not part of the pink avalanche? I’d already made an altered Renfrew out of this fabric (which has shown up paired with other things from time to time), a very lightweight drapey poly jersey, with a nice big scrap left over–just enoughContinue reading “Pink? Avalanche #4, and a dress: Jan/18 #102”

It’s not that everything I’ve made since the beginning of December is pink. It’s just that everything I’ve made which isn’t a repeat pattern since the beginning of December is pink. (There’s a pair of chocolate brown Style Arc Katherine pants, and a bright yellow version of this Burda shirt, for example.) Except for thisContinue reading “Not Pink! Burda 11/17 Top #109 in Turquoise”

I’m not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it here, but I take bellydance classes. This has led to any number of awkward and cringe-inducing conversations with men on dates, but despite their belief that the only reason for a woman to take bellydance lessons is to learn to seduce men with all that sexxxy jiggling,Continue reading “Burda 1/18 Leggings #107: February Floral”

I started this dress in the fall of 2016, and then it spent a year getting wrinkled while sitting on my ironing table. I was petrified of wrecking the fabric by pressing the seams wrong. The combination of synthetic velvet plus lurex made me visualize melted goldish-pink gluck on my ironing board, and I couldn’tContinue reading “Burda 4/2016 Dress 119: Pink Avalanche #2”

I’ve been making a ton of t-shirts this fall, but don’t plan to post about most of them. They’re largely FBA experiments based on a Renfrew I altered to fit me, with darts rotated into gathers at the shoulder, neckline, or centre front. Mostly I got bored of basic t-shirts and could never find theContinue reading “Burda 10/2017 Top #119”