Cream Spice Capris
Cream Capris I love that I was able to take these photos at 10:00 pm at night, outside, without a flash. Now if that doesn’t scream summer, what does? (This is where someone who’s from the real “up...
View ArticleOne year of jeans
Unsewing Since the picture above constitutes the grand total of my (un)sewing the last couple of days, I thought I’d talk about jeans. First me-made jeans for me, ever. I just checked back and...
View ArticleJalie 2908 version 67 80 342 897 893 (and other projects)
Does there reach a point where you’ve made up the same pattern so many times it’s not worth reblogging? I hope not. Just another set of Jalie Jeans Anyway, on the weekend between tromping up and down...
View ArticleYawn…
Jeans Jeans are done. They’re fine. The Back Buttonhole FAIL. There was the requisite “OMFG how the HECK are these ever going to fit?” moment. There was the usual buttonhole drama (Featherweight and...
View ArticleThe Pants that Wouldn’t Be
Jeans I’m never sure if famous Saskatchewan authors are really famous or just famous in Saskatchewan (OK, I’m reasonably certain Farley Mowat is Canada-famous-ish, anyway, as he only lived in...
View ArticleLa Mode Syo
The cool kid. Syo would like you to know that she’s far, far, too cool to be posing in her new jeans for her mom. They are a little big. Not really satisfyingly skinny. Syo’s mother would like you to...
View ArticleMake me one too!
Tyo's jeans, Version II Or, a further failure of selfishness. The first pair of jeans I made, a year and a half or so ago, were from Jalie 2908, and were for Tyo. They turned out great (better, in...
View ArticleDo Over
Mom, you can't expect me to pose with my sister! Although I love the idea of the Sew Weekly challenges—how fun, to be sewing something on the same theme as people all around the world!—I hardly ever...
View ArticleThe littlest jeans… EVER.
teensy tiny jeans I didn’t sew for my kids when they were little. I think I made one sundress-type-thingy for Tyo when she was two, and as sundress-thingies go, it was not impressive. So sewing in...
View ArticleThe joys of experience…
More little jeans The thing about making something over and over again—especially in rapid succession—is that you should, really, be getting better at it each time, right? Well, that’s the theory,...
View ArticlePantsclub
Our little sweatshop I worked it out the other day and realized it’s been like a year and a half since I made myself a pair of jeans. Say what? I know! Crazy! And, the best of the remaining pairs (or...
View ArticleJeans at last.
Jeans! I’ve needed new jeans for a while. Like, a really long while. The last pair was these skinnies, a year and a half ago. Which, I’ll add, wound up twisting annoyingly in the one leg, so I don’t...
View ArticleAttack of the blue roses
Blue. Rose. Pique. There are few prints that make me as weak in the knees as blue florals. I talk myself out of buying them all the time. (I should perhaps note that most of the ones I haven’t talked...
View ArticleJeans for the Cool Kid
The Happy Teenager Tyo’s been making out like a bandit this year. I mean, really—Syo got some yoga pants she doesn’t like and a quick stretch-knit birthday suit, and Tyo has racked in a pikachu onesie,...
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