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Tag: knit fabric

  • The I can’t help myself, this is too cute suit! Um, ya. I just want to eat her up! I started with this vintage pattern: Simplicity 9738  from 1980 (the year I was born!) I’ve been sewing with knits… a lot! This is a micro fleece from Jo-Ann’s (I could make a couple dozen of these, I went a wee bit crazy on Black Friday). Yes, fleece is a knit material (choose your needles accordingly!). The only place I varied from the pattern was with the hood. When I was putting it on I realized that…

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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…

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