Posts tagged tutorial
Spotlight: The Quick and Easy Gracie + a fun freebie!

Hello hello!  I am so stoked to have made something so quick and so easy after the marathon of sewing I did in the last few weeks for Easter and birthdays and all sorts of other things! The Gracie by Blaverry was a cool breeze after all of that!  [Easter dresses and birthdays and more Bowie, oh my, are all coming soon!]  I have to be honest- I am just so glad that I have a chunk of time before starting the next big project!  So here goes, the easy peasy Gracie pattern! 

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The Magnificent Vivie! Piecing tutorial and Blaverry Pattern Review!

The Vivie Dress PDF Pattern by Blaverry.  The Vivie was actually the first Blaverry pattern I ever bought!  I was searching frantically for a first day of school dress to make for Azriella the day before school was set to start!  I found the Vivie, fell in love with the Blaverry patterns on a whole and it is one of my favorite, everyday dresses for Azriella at this age.  It just fits her so well!  I never blogged it because I was busy making her birthday dress then the cavalcade of Halloween sewing so I never got a chance to give it a proper photo-shoot!

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Postcards from Lavendale (with mini top hat tutorial)

What I have here today is a post on my newest entry for the Project Run & Play sew along:  Challenge 4: Pick a Color. While I was finishing up my last entry, I was brainstorming on what to do next.  I asked Azriella what was her favorite color and she promptly said "PURPLE!"  I said, "Really?  Remember, there's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, pink, purple, black, and white..."  "PURPLE!" Okay, just making sure!  So I set forth to find fabric.  I found more than I needed.  I bought 6 different fabrics and ended up using 5 of them.  Then I thought of this dress that I have been itching to make from a book that I have by Mary Adams called "the Party Dress" and the dress on the cover is one of her incredible creations called the bias strip dress.  I had no idea how much fabric I was going to need ( I bought too much!) and I was unsure of how to do the bodice.

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