Tilly and the Buttons: Coco Top and Margot Pajama Pants

When I received this sky blue fabric in the mail, I showed it to my mom, and she said "That would be really nice for a pajama set, and you know, blue is my favorite color"-- hint hint nudge nudge. I got the hints and the nudges, and I made this pajama set for my mom. 😄  It is Tilly and the Buttons Coco Top pattern with their Margot Pajama Pants pattern but with my own hack to keep the bottom...

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Make Nine Challenge 2021

I recently learned of Make Nine challenge, and shared it with my friend at Life at Anchor (her instagram is Madebyvan). I really want to improve my garment sewing, so I pulled the above nine items that I want to make this year.  They involve different types of fabrics, button holes, different types of neck designs, etc-- I hope I picked a variety.  Only pattern that I was not able to...

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Finlayson Sweater for Dad

 For Christmas this year, I bit the bullet and decided to make clothes for my parents.  I really wasn't sure if that was the best idea because at that time, I had only made about two pieces of garments.  But my lovely girlfriends gave me a fabulous gift card to Mood Fabrics, and I was able to purchase really good quality fabrics to make beautiful garments.  So I said to myself,...

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Tilly and the Buttons Billie Sweatshirt

 I sewed this Tilly and the Button's Billie Sweatshirt dress with gorgeous organic fabric from Fabric Worm.  It's very soft and stretchy so it's perfect for home wear.  It was on super sale over the holidays so I got a very good deal too!   It is sprinkled with ballet slippers, flowers, little kitten faces, and birds--- my rule is if it doesn't have flowers or animals, what...

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Happy New Year!

 Starting this year nice and easy.  Obvious confession-- I have not been good about posting here.  And I've done so much sewing!  I did try to post regularly in my Instagram.   And you can see, in 2020, I did a lot of sewing, and quilting, and I even sewed some garments!  Honestly, I was pretty intimidated about sewing garments.  It seemed it required accuracy, precision,...

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