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Today’s Pattern Story: Simplicity 1018

by Erin on May 13, 2013

Pink: C’mon! What does it say? Let me look, why dontcha?

Blue: Shhh! The transmission is very faint. Those egghead boys in tech didn’t realize the powder would futz with the receiver.

Pink: I told them that would happen. Remember when the lipstick camera didn’t work because they didn’t realize the lens would get all smeary?

Blue: I think it’s coming in now … “Proceed to rendezvous. Ignore any Leprechaun people.”

Pink: Goddamn it, they’re drunk again. Oh … wait!

Today’s dress from Janet at Lanetz Living …

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by Erin on May 1, 2013

Thanks to all of you who sent this. Also, I was lying about the “without comment” … how do you make these? On second thought, don’t tell me, I will spend way too much time making them if you tell me.

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Today’s Pattern Story: Butterick 9625

April 16, 2013

Blue: Well, I told her. But would she listen? No. I even offered to take her shopping for one. Yellow: I know! You’ve been a saint. Nobody else would have taken as much trouble. I mean, it’s ridiculous for her not to believe we all have invisible couches. Black: There! In the sky! It’s [...]

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I am never, ever, ever, ever, ever putting this thing together

April 9, 2013

I went through a couple of Giant Plastic Tubs of Doom before my recent move, and realized that there were some alterations projects, UFOs, and just plain WTFs that had been languishing, untended and uncompleted, for two moves now. Looking through the bins, I realized that a lot of these projects felt like obligations, rather [...]

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Such Cool Fabric

April 1, 2013

Isn’t it, though? I wish this were yardage, but unfortunately it’s a vintage dress. (I say “unfortunately”, because it’s in pretty bad shape.) [Thanks to Robin for the link !] I was unpacking all my fabric over the weekend and even though there’s quite a bit of it, it hasn’t really sated my fabric-love. I [...]

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Revisiting the Hoard

March 19, 2013

As much as moving sucks (and it really does suck) it also can be the occasion to re-find things you forgot you had. Like these buttons: and these: and these: The “e” buttons were from this dress, which died a terrible stained death; the black flower buttons were used on a different dress that [...]

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Today’s Pattern Story: Butterick 3526

March 15, 2013

Yellow Dress: I wonder what it’s like in there. In the capsule. White Dress: She looks so vibrant. So alive. So … three-dimensional. It must be wonderful, to be able to feel like that. Black-and-White Dress: When I get out, I’m definitely going to eat the yellow one first.

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Random Is Still A Kind of Order

March 10, 2013

I tried an experiment last week, and it looked like this: There’s a lot (and I mean a lot, as I am finding to my dismay as I prepare to move house) of stuff in my closet that I don’t wear — not because I don’t like it, but because it doesn’t EXACTLY go [...]

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A few brief impressions of a new Echino 9929

February 25, 2013

I finished that Echino 9929 I postulated a while ago. I’m quite pleased with it but I haven’t managed to take a full-on picture yet. Here are a few glimpses for you! The zipper (notice my lovely, even basting and careful clipping of loose threads from the waist seam — uh, actually, not so much): [...]

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What’s the Fuss! (Or, how not to write about zippers.)

February 19, 2013

I made Simplicity 2226 this weekend (pics coming soon) and it’s a nice pattern — very straightforward, which is good as it’s intended for beginners. (I liked it because I wanted something that in my head I was calling “a Modcloth-esque bike-friendly skirt” — something that looked kind of kicky and cute, but had good [...]

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