dresses

Deer + Doe Magnolia Gown

November 19, 2019

Here is the fanciest thing I’ve ever made! I don’t have a lot of opportunities to wear such a fancy dress, but when we were invited to a black tie preferred wedding, I immediately thought of the Deer and Doe Magnolia. Not only does Deer and Doe’s block work…

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Pattern Drafting Workshop at Stitch Sew Shop

July 8, 2019

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…

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Deer and Doe Belladone

May 7, 2019

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…

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Dotty Pauline Alice Aldaia Dress

October 8, 2017

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…

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A bit of a retraction

July 5, 2017

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.…

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Lodo Dress #2

June 1, 2017

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…

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