My sister was looking through some of my Burdas and decided she wanted me to make a few things for her to wear. She bought her own fabric a few months ago, and I finally got around to making it for her. BS-07-2009-109B This was an easy pattern to make, and I think it turned … More Pattern Review: BS-07-2009-109B
Another quick and easy summer top! Ok, maybe not “easy” (there was some cursing at Burda instructions and stitch unpicking), but quick. And lightweight. And still summer appropriate. I seem to be on quite the Burda tear of late – it has been sort of torturous to keep getting good issues (well, at least up … More Pattern Review: BS-05-2013-103
The Russian website has put up the full preview of the October issue. Looks like Mara Jade made the cover, at least for the Russian edition. Like I said, Star Wars chic is always in fashion. Anyway, this is the last of this year’s fall issues (November is usually a transitional issue, but tends to be … More Newsflash: October Burda Full Preview Announced
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
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