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Do you ever feel like you don't sew enough?
I pose the question because if you're on Social Media (Instagram, Facebook, Blogs) it seems as if garment after garment passes our screens (phone, iPad, Computer) with different sewists turning out...
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Shirt Inspiration
It's been awhile since I posted. Some of it was because I was on a sewing tear and didn't want to stop to post and take pictures...and then this weekend, I got the crud again. It came and went faster...
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What's Going On...
My last post was February 19th and I was just getting over the crud. I went to work on the Tuesday after the President's Day holiday, came home sank into bed and have been in the midst of a minor...
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Carriage Corners Sew Camp 2017 - Part One
I had the BEST time at Sew Camp! There were eight of us this time - Andrea, from Knit Knac, Bernice (who has attended Sew Camp for her third time!), Cennetta from Magahony Stylist, Coralee who just...
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Carriage Corners Sew Camp 2017 - Part Two
After Friday at Fabric Mart and lunch out...everyone headed back to the B&B to sew. As mentioned in the previous post, sewing machines were either already set up or were just being set up and...
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April is Shirt Month
I was discussing my sewing with a dear friend and lamented that you, my blog readers, were going to be tired of shirt post after shirt post appearing here. See I've been on a serious shirt sewing...
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The Hurrying Spring Along Shirt!
This is what I woke up to on April 2nd...It was supposed to be spring like 3 weeks ago! So continuing to sew shirts is appropriate for April. Especially since I'm thinking it's gonna be a minute before...
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Do you own a Black Shirt?
I know all of the fashion pundits tell you that you should own a good white shirt. It appears on all of the Top Ten lists. However, if you think about it, you could use a good black shirt too. It would...
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Dot...Dot..Dot in Chambray
After making my black shirt with the gingham accents, I really wanted a few more shirts which is what started me down this rabbit hole and ultimately ended up as April being "Shirt Month." This shirt...
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Dot...Dot...Dot in Reverse
The next shirt is a journey in details. This shirt is loaded with special things I did to it. I didn't start out to sew a shirt where the details could possibly overtake the actual shirt design. My...
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Inspired by Carolina Herrera
This is one of the shirts I took to Sew Camp and finished most of the construction there. However, I still needed to do a little bit of work to it when I got home. I was inspired by this ad I saw on...
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An Orange Isaac Mizrahi Shirt
I bought this fabric years ago from Fabric.com around the time they had the Vera Wang fabrics. It was purchased because I liked it not because I had specific plans for it. So it sat on the shelf...
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Everyone needs a white shirt, right?
I always knew that I was going to add a white shirt to this collection of shirts. I just couldn't decide if I wanted a classic white shirt or my TNT version with the gathered back. After some thought I...
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Shirt Sewing Tips
I added some tips to a couple of my shirt making posts and then I decided to just put all of the tips in one post ~ also adding some more information and links to blogs and equipment in case you need...
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Shirt Month Wrap Up
April was some month, huh?! I've shown 8 shirts that were sewn either earlier this year or specifically during the month of April. I combined them all together so that they were given the platform...
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Met Gala - 2018
The theme for this year's Met Gala is "The Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination." Besides the normal fashion mags covering the event online, you could also watch it live on the E!...
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Butterick 6261 in Glen Plaid Suiting
If you've been reading for awhile you know that I swore off Butterick's Connie Crawford patterns years ago after having a bad experience with one. But this one came across my feed and I thought I would...
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Sewcation Eve
When the seasons change...when the earth reawakens after a cold winter...or when the season turns to the days of darkness...I have a yearning to spend quality time with my sewing machine...making new...
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The End of My Sewcation
So it's late Sunday evening and I've been sewing since Friday, May 25th...and it's all I've been doing. I didn't take pictures. I haven't posted here to the blog because I just wanted to sew and...
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Sew the Garment Making Book by Barbara Emodi
I've known that Barbara was writing a sewing book almost since she decided to write it. Occasionally she's posted a pic to Instagram showing what she was sewing for the book which was released on May...
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