This Is Me Wearing What I Like : : Alyse Wide Leg Pants : : Designer Stitch

August 8, 2017 by

Hey You! This is the first of….hopefully…many pants posts….but boy I’m finding it difficult. I keep telling myself….‘I’m not asking you if these pants make my bum look big or my legs look short. I’m just here to share my experience making…and wearing…the Alyse Wide Leg Pants by Designer Stitch.’ But….well…I dunno. I’m feeling more than the usual out of my comfort zone. To explain…I think I need to dial this conversation back a few…okay, three….decades.  Back then, cameras had film and photos cost money….even the crappy photos. To have more than one Christmas on the same roll of film was standard. Young ‘uns….that’s just 24 pictures. I remember trying to differentiate the years…it was like those puzzles you find in magazines…Try and spot 8 differences between these two pictures. But…to get to my…

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The Suki Robe : : A Helen’s Closet Pattern

July 25, 2017 by

Hello. Hello. I’m back with a new to me, new to the pattern market, make today. Yep. I was lucky enough to pattern test the hot off the press Suki Robe by Helen’s Closet. Okay…a very short back story. I’ve been on the hunt for a Haori inspired robe for a few years now….patiently, and sometimes not so patiently, searching thrift stores for a vintage robe that ticked all the boxes; fit, colour, fabrication. The reality was I found few….very few…robes at all. And. They never fit. And. The colours were always wrong. Honestly…I’m not sure why I didn’t think to sew a robe from the onset of my obsession other than that I was probably a little glued to the idea of vintage.  My shopping experience kept trying to tell me otherwise; ginormous sleeves…

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I Fixed It and You Helped Me : : McCall Pattern M7314

July 16, 2017 by

I fixed it! And you helped me! Yes, ’tis true. Thanks so very much for your comments on my McCall Pattern M7314 post. Your suggestions and encouragement enabled me to resuscitate my pretty floral dress.   So….above…we see the original dress on the left and the updated dress on the right.  The waistline was sitting uncomfortably high, so much so that I wore the dress only once. I’ll fess up….the dress was a tosser. Too much trouble to try and fix, thought me. Plus, I only had a piece of fabric about the size of a dinner plate.  Louisa, of Damselfly’s Delights, {go there now and be inspired by hand spun, hand died, organic pretty much everything} pointed out that it was really just a crescent of fabric that would be needed to do the fix, but…

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Wicked Cool : : My Charlie Caftan : : By Closet Case Patterns

June 25, 2017 by

I think I might be an adult now…. It’s like this; years ago…when I was quite certain I was a kid…summers meant ten glorious days at the YM/YWCA Camp Garibaldi. Oh the anticipation. Every year was different, yet in many ways the same. For sure there’d be new girls, a cabin change and a new counselor. But much of the staff remained unchanged for all the years I attended. It wasn’t a fancy camp, there were no uniforms, there were no horses…we were mostly just a motley crew of kids learning about diversity, and caring, and sharing. Permitting myself to lapse into eleven year old lingo…my very most favourite camp counselor was Margo. Her full name was Margo Gram and her name could be spelled forward and backward. I don’t think I need to…

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