Archive | September, 2011
Check out Sarai’s Lonsdale Dress on the Coletterie!

Check out Sarai’s Lonsdale Dress on the Coletterie!

By on September 21, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Remember my Chantilly dress? If you missed it, Sarai from Colette Patterns swapped patterns with me over the summer, her Chantilly dress for my Lonsdale dress. She recently posted photos of her finished Lonsdale dress, and it’s stunning! Click the image above, or click here to check out more photos. (Talk about taking a summer [...]

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First Handmade Christmas Gift Done! There’s Just One Problem…

First Handmade Christmas Gift Done! There’s Just One Problem…

By on September 20, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Remember last year, when I ambitiously declared I wanted to sew Christmas presents? And then was laid off weeks later, which left me with more free time but a lot less money. In the end, I sewed a grand total of one present! (Which was Mr Sewaholic’s Christmas shirt – click here to check out [...]

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Make Your Favorite Summer Sewing Patterns Work For Fall

Make Your Favorite Summer Sewing Patterns Work For Fall

By on September 19, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Happy Monday, everyone! It definitely felt like fall in Vancouver this weekend, with cooler temperatures, rain, and grey skies – almost as if someone flicked a switch from ‘Summer’ to ‘Fall.’ When this happens, I have the urge to reorganize my closet, putting away the sandals and bringing out the boots and tights. Time to [...]

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Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself

Don’t Be So Hard On Yourself

By on September 16, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

This is what it looked like on my bike ride home last night: Really dark. Really wet. It was close to 9 o’clock when I got home, without a tidy blog post written for today. I’d spent the last couple of hours doing ‘just one last thing’ before packing it up. And even when I [...]

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Blowing Bubbles

Blowing Bubbles

By on September 15, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Wow, I’m never allowed to say I don’t have enough sewing time again! After reading all of your comments yesterday, it made me so appreciative of my sewing time. While there’s plenty of work to do, I love that I have a fairly flexible schedule and that sewing is part of what I do. So [...]

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How Do You Make Time to Sew?

How Do You Make Time to Sew?

By on September 14, 2011 in Inspiration and Everything Else

Whenever I meet people that don’t sew, they all seem to have the same reason for not sewing – not enough time! I’ve met plenty of people in my office building that peer into my workspace with interest, looking at all of the fabric and half-finished projects, and say ‘if only I had time to [...]

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