London Calling Lawn Dress

toddler wearing floral dress standing in garden

When Kate turned two this year, Gramma aka Evy from A Bit of Stitch made her a “ballerina” dress.  It’s not your typical ballerina dress with the tulle and twirl, (don’t worry – she has tons of those too…) but it’s a sweet lawn dress with blue flowers on it to match her baby blue […]

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Linen Pinafore

There’s really nothing more darling than a little linen pinafore dress.  I made a few for Kate when she was itty bitty, and I could barely stand the cuteness then.  In case you missed it before, the tutorial is super quick and easy. Now that she’s older, I wanted to make her a new one […]

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Vintage Kindle case

So, I’ve had this awesome floral print sitting in my sewing room for the last three or four years.  I love it.  It’s a vintage upholstery weight fabric that belonged to a sweet lady who was a fantastic seamstress.  It was almost thrown out when we were cleaning, but I couldn’t let it go.  I […]

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Fall clutch

I’m crazy about this new clutch!  I absolutely love wool fabric and vintage looking buttons, so I’m pretty excited about this project.  This wool fabric is left over from the Whitney bag I made a while back, and the button is a vintage one that I pulled out of my button stash.  Oh!  I finally […]

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Needle felted clutch

My first successful attempt at using the Babylock Embellisher machine!  All my previous attempts were complete disasters… I used a wool blend from Jo-Ann’s as the base and needle felted random pieces of chiffon, 100 % wool pieces, yarn and wool roving to it.  Then I used the same wool blend for the back and […]

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