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Itchy
What I Did Today And twitchy. That inspired feeling where you want to madly do SOMETHING but aren’t sure where to put it. Which, considering I’m in the middle of a rather demanding sewalong, is...
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Scraping the bottom of the barrel
The Cute, it burns! As I contemplate the fact that I have hardly made any progress on, well, anything, in the last several days, it occurred to me that I never did a final post about the coat I made...
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A tale of impatience and disorganization
Bound Buttonholes To ease my coat-making itch while sticking to the RTW tailoring schedule, I was going to try and bang off a coat for my second niece this weekend—basically this one, in a slightly...
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The Great Reveal
Ze Coat, She is finished! Step right up, ladies and gent (there is at least one gent reading out there, I think?). You’ve borne with me through I don’t even want to count how many Springy Coat posts...
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Real sewing!
Coat for Niece # 2 … in the new sewing room. Albeit not of a terribly exciting kind. Looking at my massive stash of coating fabric, I decided to do some reduction and tackle my younger niece’s...
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Slow and steady…
Blinded by the lining Progress has been made on Serena’s coat. In fact, if I hadn’t kinda-sorta said that I would have it done by the end of the week, I’d be extremely pleased with myself. As it is,...
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[cue Imperial March]
Hubby's Coat Or other similarly foreboding music. Last night I started, edging slowly, timidly, towards working on my hubby’s coat. This is the one I’ve been promising him, oh, at least since the...
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On the Vogue Front
The next stage of fitting… Sleevage. Fitting. So, I slapped some sleeves onto my bodice-muslin of the Zoe coat, Vogue 7448, to see what they did to the floopyness around the front armscye. And also...
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Sewing to Exhaustion
I have a confession. I was bad. I sewed yesterday—pretty much all day. This doesn’t happen very often—in fact, I think this is the first time in months that I’ve sewed to the point where I was tired of...
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Frock Coat Defrocked
Coat---PROGRESS! Just in case you’ve forgotten (I nearly have), this is the coat where I try to turn this pattern: Lekala 6066 into this: Christopher Walken in The Prophecy I made two muslins, and...
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A Very Small Jacket
In the spirit of “How much more shit can I possibly cram in,” I made a baby jacket. Let’s back up a bit. Last winter my bestie, Ada, recipient of the gift Ruby Slip, had a baby girl. In the spring, Ada...
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Coatember
So there’s a bit of a gap in my coat collection, in that the Springy Coat is pretty lightweight, and my winter coat is fairly heavy, and I don’t have much in between. Technically my Lady Grey coat...
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Love and Loathing for red lace
Ok, I am so done with this coat. I can’t even. It was half done when the store closed (it’s a shop project of course) and I totally lost steam and, well, blerg. There’s nothing really wrong. The...
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