Mr. Dressaday as well as I utilized to go to one specific Cantonese restaurant all the time. (This would be before it burned down.) The personnel held advanced degrees in “surly” as well as the entire location was embellished in early Colonial Formica, however the food was sublime — if you bought it off the […]
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visitor Renee sent this charming pattern picture to me — she’s really made it, as well as the pattern was her grandmother’s. The pattern envelope reads: “Make it in a jiffy — then just slip it over your head, wrap the back to the front as well as button — you’re set for a lots […]
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thanks to Robin for pointing out this eBay noting to me — this completely appears like something I’d make, doesn’t it? I didn’t, unless Future Me gets that time device I’ve been noodling on (I have extremely fancy diagrams, drawn on a mixed drink napkin; the issue is discovering a battery the size of a […]
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Don’t worry, there aren’t 8728 vogue 8728s. this one dates from October 2011: I think this may be my most recent alphabet-print dress. I have lots and lots of alphabet-print fabric still, but I haven’t felt the need to make any of it up recently. perhaps because I give fewer dictionary-themed talks these days? […]
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A couple new sewing books (okay, one new, and one’s been out for a while) have made it across my desk (okay, cutting table) and they’re both interesting. The first, Sundressing, by Melissa Mora, is a book of (you guessed it) sundress patterns. I was pleased to see this one because it has a very large […]
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I discovered to sew on my mother’s treadle stitching maker when I was about seven years old. I believed our neighbor’s electric zig-zag stitching maker was incredibly cool, so as a teenager I saved up my babysitting incomes as well as gotten myself an electric zig-zag machine. After stitching on this for a few years, […]
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This is a new vogue reproduction pattern (Vogue 1172), and I know, absolutely and without doubt, that I once blogged about the original of this pattern. Can I remember it now? Can I find it now? Is it labeled with any of the hundreds of facetious tags I have used considering that starting to blog […]
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Do you have a bookpile? I have a bookpile. I presume everybody has a bookpile, unless they have been cursed by an evil wizard as well as are not able to checked out once again up until they surface some impossible task, like spinning straw into gold. (Aside: do you all understand the word tsundoku, […]
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I do appreciate the irony of these next few pictures being somewhat out-of-focus: This is another vogue 9929, of course, and it’s in that heavy Japanese Echino fabric. I’ve only stitched with it a couple of times but I truly like it. It’s easy to sew with and extremely comfortable to wear. The only drawback […]
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