Today’s post is brought to you by the lovely Eleena Dress pattern by Coffee & Thread.  The Eleena Dress is Olga’s latest pattern, and not the first I’ve sewn.  I previously shared the Antalya Dress I made for Arden last summer.  In the interim, Kid Approved became Coffee & Thread. The Eleena Dress is for girls {…Continue Reading}
While my sewing table was being used as a temporary island countertop in our new kitchen, I took the time to cut out a couple of patterns to sew up – one of them was another Cocoon Dress by Groovy Baby and Mama. Â The first two Cocoon Dresses I made just before Christmas are already {…Continue Reading}
Lately I’ve been feeling like everything I do is fruitless. Â All the mundane daily tasks like cleaning and laundry are undone even more quickly when in the midst of a renovation. Â Our kitchen is beginning to return to functionality, but there still seems to be unending dust and materials stored around, making everything feel dirty {…Continue Reading}
Woohoo!  I’m participating in a fun event today!  Have you heard of Sew The Show?  If you haven’t, you’ve been missing out!  To quote the website: “This is not a costume series, but it IS a chance to re-watch your favorite shows, enthuse about them with a couple hundred of your closest friends, and honor {…Continue Reading}
Today I have something fun to share – I’m participating in the Petit Oiseau pattern tour for Filles à Maman.  Hadley was the recipient of my last FAM tour with a Mimi Dress, so Arden is the winner today! The Petit Oiseau is a girl’s dolman shirt with unique asymmetrical piecing across the neckline continuing down {…Continue Reading}
Coffee is good.  Getting together with friends to drink coffee is better.  Since moving to New Jersey, the latter has become more elusive, since I’m still making local friends.  Enter the Wear to Where series hosted by Katy of Wild and Wanderful and Angelica of Gardening in High Heels, and I had the perfect opportunity to {…Continue Reading}
We’re at it again! Â This Spring a bunch of designers got the crazy idea of swapping patterns and we had so much fun we set up another round of Designer Pattern Swap. Â Last time I made the Iridis Dress by Sofilantjes and Arden still loves wearing that dress. This time I got to choose a {…Continue Reading}
I’m so glad I started preparing for Halloween last week, because I spent quite a bit of time working on the dresses for my Happy Gnomes! Â First, did you know that gnomes come in pairs? Â That little detail was what sold the girls on the costume idea since they’re always playing and pretending they’re twins. {…Continue Reading}
Since this is by far not the first time I’m sharing my love for True Bias‘ Mini Hudson Pants, this will be a relatively short post. Â I’ve made three Mini’s previously, a duo for the pattern tour and a slightly modified version for Arden in my Top Stitchers entry. You’ll recall from my Momiform MAKEover {…Continue Reading}
Last week I shared the dress I made using the #21100 Fun Tee pattern as a base. Â Today I’m showing you the unadulterated and mistake-free version of the pattern. I was already planning to make Arden a tee, but then last week her school had a series of color days and we had zero clothes {…Continue Reading}
