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Category: Sewing
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Oh my silly Tuesday. She decided she wanted to be a brown hairstreak butterfly and went on and on about it’s beautiful tan color (the butterfly was pictured on this post). The tan body was no problem. I pulled out an old Stretch and Sew pattern for a simple raglan sweatshirt type top and traced her leggings for the bottoms. It’s a little funky with the yellow ribbing around the collar, but I didn’t have another color that worked and I was NOT going back to the fabric store before Halloween, that place was a mad house!! I would like…
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Last year two of the Jo-Ann’s in town closed so they could make one mega Jo-Ann’s. For some reason when they open a new store they don’t use any inventory from old stores, so everything was on sale. It took me a while to realize this was happening and I didn’t get many awesome deals. But when fabric is 90% off it’s hard to pass up. Even if it is an odd stiff flocked taffeta type. That’s how I ended up with a lot of this: I made up this quick skirt for Tuesday by cutting a rectangle, gathering the…
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It’s Kids Clothes Week Challenge this week and even though I have managed to sew for an hour every day I don’t have one finished thing to show for it! My mom however has been kicking butt. She made Bennet these upcycled pants from an old sweater. I lanolized them and am using them as longies. So soft, love, love, love. Yesterday she came over with a jacket made from another sweater and today a purse for Tuesday that she is so in love with. Seriously how cute is that!?! Tuesday has been begging me for an over the shoulder…
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