Last month I took a pattern drafting workshop at Stitch with Cal Patch. I’ve been wanting to take a workshop since Stitch opened, but I wasn’t interested in a workshop for a specific pattern (like jeans or a dress), since I like taking my time working on new patterns at…
We’ve been calling 2019 “the year of no pressure” in our house. After a crazy 2018 where we took on too much, we’re trying to take it a bit easier. Part of this is not putting expectations on myself about what I will sew and when. My goal for the…
Polka dot? Don’t mind if I do! (Mal insisted I insert that joke). I seriously love how this dress came out.
I bought this fabric, Art Gallery Jungle Ave Dotted Boulevard, at Stitch in July when they had a sale on knits with a vague plan that I’d make a…
I wrote about my second Lodo Dress just over a month ago, specifically about how much I hated the fabric, which is a Birch Interlock. The dress has sat in my closet unworn since.…
I ordered this fabric from fabric.com, thinking the Birch double gauze and quilting cottons are so nice the knits must be nice too. I was wrong. The drape is weird, the white backing shows through if it stretches at all, and also through the stitching. I sewed up part of…
I decided to dip my toe into sack dresses with the Lodo dress, and I think it was pretty successful!
I really shy away from shapeless dresses, but something about the Lodo appealed to me, and that might be that it’s not entirely shapeless (it has a subtle cocoon shape),…
