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Met Gala 2015
I love the Met Gala especially since it kicks off the new Fashion Exhibit at The Met. This year the theme is: China Through the Looking Glass. It will be at the Museum May 7th - August 16th. I will be...
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Vogue 8209 ~ One more time!
I have some important meetings to attend and I needed a new suit to wear. My present summer suits are all too big. Gawd I promise to stop typing that sometime soon! It's starting to annoy me too. Of...
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Vogue 8209 in Glen Plaid
Here are the pics of the suit in action. Again, I see things to improve upon for next time. I've already cut out the fabric for another jacket/dress combo in navy blue...I really don't like me in a...
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Throwback Thursday #3
Along with Closet Cull posts there will also be a couple of posts about garments that I found in the dark depths of my wardrobe that have been resurrected...rising to the front of the closet like the...
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Fabric Finds #1
A few of my friends, after visiting the cave, suggested that I give shout-outs when a great piece of fabric appears that I would buy...so this is probably the start of something quite a few of you are...
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Curvy Sketchbook by Cashmerette
I was gifted both the small and larger versions of these sketchbooks for my upcoming birthday. However, I would have bought them both anyway, to support my friend Jenny.I think that it's an awesome...
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Let's Do it Again!
When I was at the Vogue Fashion Fabrics booth at The Expo in Seattle, I was deliberately looking for fabrics to make a couple of spring suits.I bought this midweight textured rayon suiting and the...
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Pattern Addiction
I think I'm addicted to anything sewing ~ seriously! See my heart skipped a beat when I read the notice in my email box that Butterick, McCalls, Vogue and KwikSew patterns were on sale. Luckily I read...
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Fabric Finds #2
My fabric collection is not an accident. It is a deliberate curated collection. At the beginning I bought a lot of basics...alot of basics in a lot of different fabrications...because I always wanted...
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Thoughts from a Sewcation
For this sewcation, I decided to handle my blog posts differently. Usually, I write and post them as I've sewn each garment. This time I'm waiting until everything is done, including photos, and will...
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Interview Blues
So this is the interview suit that I never wore...I made my first suit from a glen plaid fabric using Vogue 8209. That jacket/suit worked really well and I got the job. But before I knew that, I...
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My Version of the Talbot's Skirts
My new work environment is more business casual than "professional." So along with donating most of my too big professional skirts, I'm sewing more fun, colorful and print palooza skirts. My fabric...
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Butterick 6183 - The Lisette Top
I bought this pattern as soon as it came out. I loved the top and had a ton of ideas for it. Butterick 6183I'm really digging tunic-y tops over skirts or pants. The two outfits that I've already made...
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The Lisette Top 'n my TNT pants
These pieces were the result of a dream. Honestly! Last Thursday I'd been sewing for three days straight and I was moving very slowly that morning. My daughter came by to check on me and after she left...
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Lisette #3 and Matching Maxi Skirt
I really did like this Lisette top! The first one was made in linen, this one is actually the second one and it's made in a scuba knit (or at least that's what Fabric Mart called it) and my final one...
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Goings on in the Sewing Cave
My old trustworthy computer finally died. I loved that HP and had it for about six years. I'd bought another one last year...opened the box and then never put it up cause the thought of putting...
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Simplicity 1662 Skirt - Painting the Fabric
I posted this picture to Instagram last week and both Sheila and Oonaballoona wrote that I should paint the fabric. At the time I posted the fabric, it was a beautiful and dramatic black and white...
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Things Change and Nothing Remains the Same...
Intriguing title right? Well it's nothing earth shattering. See I'm still painting the fabric and my second idea had to be shelved because the fabric wouldn't work with the pattern I had in mind. So...
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Fabric Painting - Part 2
Well this is a flight of fancy that's completely taken over my sewing time! *smile* However, it's creatively stimulating and stretching me in new directions. Also it gives me time to figure out...
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Closet Cull - Summer Edition
After spending most of the weekend working on painting the skirt, I still had no sewing mojo. So after cooking dinner, I decided to try a few things on for work this week. Now to be perfectly honest,...
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