Well, it was a year. The year started out with Meniscus knee surgery for my daughter and a shoulder surgery for my grandma. This was followed up by new floors (finally), which led to a leak in our furnace and valves needing to be replaced due to jack-hammering of tile above it. That same week […]
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A new blanket for Khaleesi
By Stacy on December 29, 2018
This was a fun and quick sew for Fabric Anthropology that I just had to get a Dany wig for the photos! This is the Dothraki panel with a black cuddle minky that I picked up at Joann’s, I think. All you do is serge them together, leaving an 8 inch opening. Turn right sides […]
drafting | Handbags | Leather | Sewing | Sewing for me
A new black purse
By Stacy on December 28, 2018
I will have to get on those “2018 wrap up” posts, but I am so behind in just posting everything in general. I will sit down next week after the 1st and work on getting caught up on everything. For now…I have a purse! This is my boxy purse that I made taller, so I […]
Creativity | drafting | Handbags | Leather | Sewing
More hip cross body purses
By Stacy on December 16, 2018
I spent some time cutting up a bunch of leather and had enough to make four of my small purses. I got two of them finished up, and think that I can successfully put together a tutorial on them. Just as soon as I figure out how to get the pattern pieces into Illustrator. These […]
drafting | Pinterest hacks | RTW Copies | Sewing | Sewing for me
Waterfall scarf
By Stacy on December 15, 2018
I have been wanting to make this scarf for all of this year, so I decided to finally make it this past week. I knew it would be a bit slapdash to make it. The waterfall nature of the scarf with varying lengths just look like you start cutting and see what happens. Which is […]
drafting | Pattern hacking | Pinterest hacks | Sewing | Sewing for me
Comfy sweatshirt dress
By Stacy on December 9, 2018
Hey, I sewed something up this week! I have had this cut out for a few weeks, so I finally got around to sewing it up. It is basically this same top, only with a longer band around the bottom and deeper pockets. This is only 2-way stretch, so it is a bit tighter around […]
As I am having so much fun making up my designs into repeat patterns, I thought I would go into a little of how I create them. I start out by drawing a design by hand. Once my design is all done, I take a picture of it and bring it into Photoshop. I delete […]
The holidays are now upon us! It has been a busy few weeks, with not much sewing in store. I did cut out a bunch of projects, but haven’t gotten around to it. My accomplishments this week Focus Photo – Last week was Thanksgiving and this pretty much sums up the girl right now. I […]
Last week I “focused” mostly on drawing and creating patterns, so that was fun and something different. It seems like I need to change up on what I am working on or else I get bored and just don’t want to work on things. I have definitely hit a wall with my sewing lately. I […]
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Lightning strikes!
By Stacy on November 11, 2018
I am a sucker for red fabrics. Anything I can mix with black usually ends up in my shopping cart, since I wear it so much. Having my kids’ school colors as red and black definitely helps, since I try to wear the fan colors at their tournaments and games. This is the Flash lightning […]
