Sewing

Indigo Tie Dress

My sewing friends Hélène and Suzy decided we needed to have a challenge this month and after some deliberation the Sewing Therapy Tie Dress pattern was chosen to make. I didn’t own the pattern, so that was the first order of business, and then choosing fabrics came next. If you have never seen the pattern, […]

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Wildergown tops with friends

I won the Friday Pattern Company Wilder gown pattern in the My Makes for the Month competition on Instagram. I didn’t want to makethe dress, but I did like the idea of a couple of tops, so made the first one from some Indian cotton I won from FiberstoFabric, so it seemed a nice bit […]

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A Cora dress: more than the sum of its parts

Megan, (meggipeg) and Katherine (sewblooms) and I meet up from time to time and we like to have a joint sewing project to keep us interested. Katherine had a book, Fashion Pattern Cutting by Zarida Zaman, which she lent us to get some inspiration and which led to each of us creating a garment with […]

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