Yet another quick and easy piece of my cram-it-in-end-of-summer-sewing series. I don’t usually go for the boxy tunics or dresses from Burda, but there are just some days in summer when it is just so hot and miserable that the thought of wearing tightly fitted clothing is too much to bear. I made this last … More Pattern Review: BS-05-2013-101
Marfy is one of those pattern companies where I admire a lot of the designs, and I love when other people make things from their patterns, but I just can’t bring myself to shell out the cash for a single-sized pattern without instructions. I keep thinking about it, and maybe sometime I will find a … More Newsflash: Fall/Winter Marfy Patterns Announced
The Russian Burda website has posted the full preview of the Fall/Winter Burda Easy Magazine. There aren’t as many patterns since it is the Easy magazine, and I actually feel like I already saw most of the good stuff when I looked at the early preview, so I won’t bother re-posting the same images. However, … More Newsflash: Burda Style Easy Fall/Winter 2013 Full Preview Posted
This was actually the first garment I sewed up after returning from nationals (though first I spent a week cleaning my sewing room, and then waited a few more days to start sewing after that), but the photo taking got delayed a bit. Of course, then I got distracted sewing dresses to wear to some … More Pattern Review: BWOF-02-2006-128
In my previous pattern review post I showed off my other knit dress that I made from this year’s February Burda Magazine. I have to say I was really excited about this issue when it came out, and I am even more excited about it now that I have made some of the patterns. There … More Pattern Review: BS-02-2013-115
First I want to thank everyone for the encouraging comments on my Butterick dress post! I don’t hate my dress, I am just not as excited with it as I would like to be, and so I think my tone was a bit more dour than I intended in the post. I also think it … More Pattern Review: BS-02-2013-114
Burda Russia has just posted the early preview of the October issue, which you can look at here. After what I felt was a rather lackluster September, I was really hoping for a knockout issue in October. But now that I have seen the early preview? Well, I’m not holding my breath. Honestly, some of … More Newsflash: October Burda Early Preview Posted
Ok, so you may remember my first (and thus far only) installment of “What The Fabric?” where we collectively scratch our heads over some truly terrible fabric options. Well, it seems that someone has made a dress from it, and posted their creation to the English Burda Style website. If you want to look at … More Wait… Someone made a dress out of it?!?!
Ok, so this was supposed to be my birthday dress. My birthday was well over several months ago. So, umm, yeah. Ooops. The silly thing is that it remained unfinished because of a zipper insertion. And I was on the fence about hemming it (the fabric doesn’t fray and probably hangs better un-hemmed) and after having … More Pattern Review: Butterick 5886
The early preview of the 2013 Fall/Winter Burda Style has been posted to the Russian website, which you can check out here. It looks like most of the Burda Style Easy previews – lots of basic tops and skirts, but I do like some of the coats in the preview. It seems like color blocking … More Newsflash: Early Preview of Fall/Winter Burda Style Easy
Doctor T Designs 