Geeky seamstress with too many ideas and not enough time. Costumes, cosplay, reading, cooking, crafting. Correspondent for Geek Say What.
The McCall’s Winter Holiday patterns have been announced! While I don’t think McCall’s gets quite the love that Vogue does come holiday pattern release season, I McCall’s has really been stepping up their game recently, and I’m actually pretty impressed with several of the new patterns in this release. I’m definitely picking up a few … More McCall’s Winter Holiday Patterns 2018
So after reviewing the comments from my November Burda post, I realize I’m probably in the minority, and that most people seem pretty excited by this issue. I’m still not overwhelmingly excited about it, but I am sort of warming up to it. Working on my Kibbe pattern posts really is giving me something like … More Burda Update and Dirndl News!
The Simplicity Winter Holiday patterns are here! As is typical with this release, we are getting a lot of PJs, holiday crafts, and kids clothes. However, we are also getting a decent number of winter styles and subdued holiday party looks. There are a lot of patterns in this release, so let’s take a look: 8786 … More Winter Holiday 2018 Simplicity Patterns
For an introduction to the Sew Your Kibbe Series, please see this post. The posts in this series are intended to be a well researched and thorough investigation of the Kibbe style recommendations, along with several example patterns for each “level of dress.” The posts in this series will be picture heavy and quite lengthy. … More Sew Your Kibbe: Romantic
My Image Magazine traditionally only releases two issues per year, but they’ve recently expanded to include a special summer and special autumn issue (which you can purchase here) that aren’t included as part of the regular subscription. Here is a look at what’s included in this special edition – we get 3 tops, 4 dresses, … More My Image Magazine: Autumn Special 2018
The full preview of the November BurdaStyle Magazine is up on both the German and Russian sites, which means it’s time for another Burda review! October was definitely one of my favorite issues of the year, and I’m a bit sad to say that November isn’t quite living up to that level of excitement for … More November 2018 BurdaStyle Magazine
The Winter/Holiday collection from Vogue Patterns is here, and on first impression I’m like, “Ok Vogue, take my money!” Of course, after taking the time to really comb through the patterns, I’ve calmed down a bit. While there are a few patterns I would like to join my stash, I certainly don’t need to bring … More Vogue Patterns Winter/Holiday 2018
For an introduction to the Sew Your Kibbe Series, please see this post. The posts in this series are intended to be a well researched and thorough investigation of the Kibbe style recommendations, along with several example patterns for each “level of dress.” The posts in this series will be picture heavy and quite lengthy. … More Sew Your Kibbe: Dramatic
So in my most recent Wardrobe Planning post I may have casually mentioned that I’ve been looking through my pattern stash with the mind of finding patterns that I both like and that fit my Kibbe Style Identity. I’ve been having such a great time digging in and really analyzing the line, shape, and feel of … More Sew Your Kibbe: An Introduction
It’s been about a year since I first started researching body typing/image ID systems, and few months since my last Wardrobe Planning Post, at which point I’d come to suspect that I fell much more into the Kibbe Soft Natural category than into the Soft Classic category. Since then I’ve not had much time to … More Sew Geeky Mid-Year Assessment and Further Wardrobe Musings (Wardrobe Planning Post #13)
