Today we have an EASY color blocked skirt tutorial for you! Actually we've shared this tutorial with you once before but back then we called it the "Melon Blocked Skirt". Remember this? Since then I don't know how many of these exact same skirts I've made. I loved them then and I love them now. The original skirt was loved to pieces and no longer fits either of my girls. But Grace wears this neon and white one ALL THE TIME. As you can see by the photographs the skirt has seen some ... View the Post
How to sew a KNIT pencil skirt…or at least how I do it…
Today is all about how to sew a knit pencil skirt in just a few easy steps! This week we've been having a pencil skirt making sew along. On Monday we gave you all the instructions for how to create a pencil skirt sloper using your own measurements and then yesterday we gave you instructions for how to cut your fabric and sew up your pencil skirt. But yesterdays instructions were for fabrics like cotton, denim, and wool. So what if you are like me and want to make yourself a pencil skirt ... View the Post
Using Polka Dots for Embroidery Design Mapping
Today I am sharing three skirts...all of which were started OVER A YEAR AGO...and just recently were finished! I've enjoyed embroidering on clothing forever (like on these baby undershirts and this dress) but a long while back I started thinking about how fun it would be to embroider on polka dot fabric and use the dots as a template or map for where the embroidering should go. So back when the idea was fresh in my mind I cut out these skirts and got to work...and I finished embroidering them ... View the Post
Vintagely Modern Skirt. Spring Edition
I have been doing some Spring sewing lately, because I have a girlie that is growing like a weed. And first on the list was a new Vintagely Modern Skirt, this time in Chambray. Man, oh, man am I loving chambray right now. I want to make some shorts, a shirt dress (for me) and some boys' things all out of chambray. Good thing I ordered 5 yards of it last summer and never got to it...because I now want to do everything out of it! The only thing I changed on the skirt tutorial above was to add ... View the Post
An Easy Valentine Skirt
I have a girlie that is out-talling all her clothes---her jeans, her dresses and her skirts have all become wayyyy too short. So, we are trying to make the winter ones last and adding some Springy things into her wardrobe for the rest of the school year. I keep telling her that her jeans are making darling capris, but I am not so sure she is buying it so it's a good thing she is still wearing boots to cover up the fact that they are shorty-mc-shortens. And just yesterday I was staring at this ... View the Post
And we interrupt our regularly scheduled series….
Sorry, we are interrupting our series for a day....but I promise it's for a good cause (and good tutorial)! Today we are over at Sew, Mama, Sew sharing in their quilting series and giving you a project for all those orphan quilt blocks that didn't make it into quilts. They make great pockets!!!! See you there! And just to let you know.....coming up this week we will be talking buttonholes, zippers, sewing darts, inserting sleeves and much more! (It's going to be a good week....) And we ... View the Post