Continuing on with my Sew, Wear Are They Now series, today I’m taking a look at all of the coats and jacket’s I’ve made over the past several years. 2010-2011 I actually made a lot of coats in my first two years of sewing; mostly because I come from a warm climate so the idea … More Sew, Wear Are They Now: Coats and Jackets
Moving on to the next part of this series, I’m looking at dresses and jumpsuits I’ve made over the past several years to see how they’ve worked in my wardrobe over time. 2010-2011 I actually started making dresses really early in my sewing adventures, even though I didn’t wear them much. I think that the … More Sew, Wear Are They Now: Dresses
I’ve been really busy the past few weeks, but when I realized I had a 3 day weekend and enough time to enter the Pattern Review Zoom contest just before the closing date, I found the energy to zip through the next project of my mini wardrobe plans! For this top, I’ve made the M1464 … More Mini Wardrobe Sewing: Top 2 Review
It is a truth universally acknowledged that anyone who makes sewing plans and posts them on the internet is doomed to fail in said plans because such is the way of life. Also, I expect that given the general vibe that is 2020, the fates are going to double down in this regard. However, all … More In Which I Shoot Myself in the Foot
The final installment of my ongoing digital sketching tutorials on the My Body Model blog has been posted! It is the third and final part of a multi-part series that introduces using digital drawing apps with the My Body Model croquis, intended to take someone from being a digital art beginner to being able to … More My Body Model Drawing Tutorial Guest Post Part 3
For anyone who is interested in my ongoing digital sketching tutorials on the My Body Model blog, Part 2 is up! It’s the second part of a multi-part series that introduces using digital drawing apps with the My Body Model croquis for a digital art beginner (you can also check out Part 1 here). If you … More My Body Model Drawing Tutorial Guest Post Part 2
December reflections and roundup summary goes here. In the meantime, here’s what’s been going on around the sewing blogosphere… Merriam Style’s YouTube channel continues to provide interesting Kibbe related content including: Wedding dresses for the body types Bone Structure Test for Body Geometry Aly Art finishes her great series with a videos about makeup for … More Sew Your Kibbe Challenge – December Round Up
November has been one of those months that has flown by entirely too fast. In my recent post about life events, I sort of delved into how crazy things have been, but this month feels like the crazy has been dialed up quite a bit. I’ve been able to sew a bit, though not as … More Sew Your Kibbe Challenge – November Round Up
I happened to come across this blog post at DIY Wardrobe blog (you can read Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, and Part 4 of the series here as well), and was enamored with the idea of making pie charts to examine my wardrobe. Why? Well, pie charts. I mean, obviously. But also because looking … More New Life New Wardrobe? (Sew Your Kibbe Challenge Update and Wardrobe Planning Post #14)
October has been a crazy month – it’s flown by! And, I actually sewed! I was able to post a McCall’s top that was mostly worked on last month, as well as working on my forever UFO, the teal Burda trench coat. I started this project in 2016, and only just got around to working … More Sew Your Kibbe Challenge – October Round Up
Doctor T Designs 