Posts Tagged ‘ pink ’

I should just give up already

So cute, right? Practice skirts to get back into “real” pattern sewing for my niece. I thought the waist seemed huge for an almost 6-yo, but what did I know? Followed the measurements as supplied to me. Did a full lining, sewing it in under the waistband and under the hem so no ugly edges [ READ MORE ]

Ack! I mailed the Christmas dress!

It’s a record this year, finishing and mailing before Thanksgiving. I’m pretty pleased with it. Super twirly. Nearly wider than it is tall. The inside’s all fun, too. Yup, that’s a Hong Kong finish on every last piece, gathers be damned. I did run out of the little print and finished the bottom edge with scraps [ READ MORE ]

Thinking about tutus

While picking out fabric for her Christmas dress, the twirliest girl I know wanted a tutu, and how do you say no to that? So together we bought 4 yards of hot pink net. She wanted the thing to stick straight out, prompting a lady at Gaffney’s I’ve feared since high school to give me [ READ MORE ]

It’s going to be a pink Christmas.

Sigh. The reason I started selling clothes online at all was precisely to sell off all the pink vintage clothing I found. Stuff that was so beautiful, but pink. No sir, I don’t like it.  So of course, my niece, whose Christmas dress I make every year, chose p-i-n-k this time. In my favorite fabric store [ READ MORE ]

a present just-because

My Mister’s sister is crazy for pink. I suspect it’s to prove her tacit credos that redheads can wear whatever they like, and so can tough broads. She also teaches at a Chicago Public School, and hates mixing her ‘normal’ wardrobe with her teacher clothes. So she has a sort of double wardrobe. I don’t [ READ MORE ]

Word on Georgie-girl

Sleeping standing up. Nose pokes out.

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