Three Pocket items

This is vogue 8577, which STILL doesn’t have any type of reviews (that I can find) on PatternReview. C’mon, people! I don’t have time to sew modern stuff that hasn’t been reviewed on PatternReview! (Luckily, this dress has plenty of reviews. however no pockets. I can add pockets, though …) The Guardian has a piece […]

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5 reasons To wear Maxi gowns As much As Humanly possible

Let’s be real, you most likely don’t requirement five reasons to wear your preferred maxi dress—in fact, reason top below is sufficient to get me to pull out my wallet.  A maxi gown isn’t just an short article of clothing, it’s a damn lifestyle.  The type of way of life where sartorial tension is minimized as […]

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Ready for Anything

Isn’t this gown magnificent? It’s from Lanetz Living. I desperately want to make this up in a heavy black silk/cotton. You might wear it to ANYTHING. I’d wear the collar open, probably, with a scarf (if I were feeling dashing) or colored beads … I wouldn’t wear a brooch or pin for concern of getting […]

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Party Dress!

My company party was last night and I made a new dress for it: The bodice is good ol’ 1577 again, and the skirt is adapted from development 2751. The fabric is a bronzy-coppery coated poly denim, which I don’t think I would have ever picked up except that it was on super-super-sale at fabric […]

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Start Here.

I’ve been looking around a bit for patterns that I believe would be easier, if not easy, for beginners. Being a beginner at stitching is a delicate thing: you want to make something that won’t frustrate you beyond the bounds of human tolerance, however at the exact same time, you want to make something that […]

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Kate Brings Back Tory Burch Bettina for Anna Freud Centre seminar

We are back with a couple of quick updates, beginning with news about Kate’s attendance at a seminar yesterday. The Duchess spent a great part of her day at the Head begin discovering Conference. The event was put on by the Anna Freud national Centre for Children as well as Families in partnership with HeadStart […]

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In Praise of buttons

Aren’t those gorgeous? I have been thinking a lot about buttons lately. I mean, more than usual (and far more than “normal” people). Some of my thoughts: — I want a big circle skirt, black, where the hem is a four-inch border of grey mother-of-pearl buttons, in a bunch of different sizes. reward points if […]

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