What Do You Want to Make Today?
If I were going to write a tutorial for I made my latest skirt it would go something like this: Measure skirt you’re currently wearing. Marvel that it actually fits you when you know your waist isn’t that small. Measure where you think you want the skirt to fall on your body. Cut two pieces […]
My upcylcing ways continue this week with my Summer of No Pants skirt made out of an old pair of jeans. These jeans were not all that flattering to start with (as case of the Old Navy gateway mom jeans phenomenon) and they were about to get a hole in one knee, so I figured […]
I bought this dress at Target last summer. I don’t know if my daughter was with me so I was in a hurry or if I just temporarily took leave of my senses, because I bought it without trying it on. It’s a beauty, and I love it, but I can’t zip the damn thing […]
My writing has been turning up all over the place lately, which is just the way I like it. If you don’t follow me as obsessively as I do, here’s an update. My Summer of No Pants post was featured on Hideous! Dreadful! Stinky!, which is the blog behind the movement. Since I made that […]
I consider myself a pretty adequate, if still rather beginner, sewer. I’m known how to sew for years and years, but I’ve never really advanced beyond the basics. I’ve never put in a zipper, for example. I’ve had a serger for more than a year and I’ve never taken it out of the box. I […]