Category: Sewing

Last night I came across this website called Opal petite clothier. I am so glad I did. I am in awe with her talent. She definitely has an eye for beauty. Love her fabric choices and oh my, look at all those ruffles! Her styles are so whimsical and beautiful. Maybe one day I will…

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I have always wanted to make a tutu for Juliana for so long and was just nervous about it not turning out right. But when I saw that Joann’s was having there huge sale on tutu fabric (can’t think of the name right now, it is 11pm!) a few months ago I bought a lot…

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So a couple of weeks ago Joann’s had a sale on McCall patterns for $1.99. I just could not pass this up and so I grabbed a few patterns. This pattern I used to make this shirt was McCall’s M5458. This was actually simple to make. I love the style of this pattern. It was…

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This week I wanted to learn how to sew with elastic thread. After watching this video on Martha Stewart website that featured one of my favorite designer Heather Ross, I saw how easy it was and I decided that I would give it a go. I used this technique on the sleeves of this shirt.…

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Here is another refashion shirt that I created from my husbands stash that was going to the thrift store. It was a simple dress to make. Here is what I did. I guess you can call this the reversible refashion shirt. You can wear it with the buttons in the front… or you can go…

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A few months ago we did our spring cleaning and my husband had a bunch of shirts that he was going to throughout. Well, I got a hold of them and thought that maybe I can do something with this but didn’t know what. Then I saw these two tutorials on remaking clothes from men’s…

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