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My name is Mary Ruth Anderson (My nickname is Essie) and I’m a blogger that focuses on illustration, sewing, and nature photography. I currently live in Arizona.

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  • Clothing,  My Blog,  Sewing

    Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: Playing With Trim Variations and My Final Decision

    Hi everyone! It’s been a while since I wrote a post about sewing my Vogue V2004 dress. Sadly, the final dress I made didn’t fit me right, so I decided to make another one. Even though I had a fitting…

    By essieofwho September 5, 2024
  • Clothing,  My Blog,  Sewing,  Vogue Patterns V2004

    Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: Other Trims and Other Essentials

    Hi everyone! In today’s Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004 post, I wanted to talk about the other trims I purchased to add to the main lace trim I wanted to sew onto the dress. I also wanted to talk about other…

    By essieofwho June 7, 2024
  • Clothing,  My Blog,  Sewing,  Vogue Patterns V2004

    Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: The Main Lace Trim

    Hi everyone! In today’s post in my sewing Vogue Pattern V2004 series, I wanted to talk about the main trim I used on the dress. Since the dress is already finished, I wanted to talk about the lace trim I…

    By essieofwho May 31, 2024
  • Clothing,  My Blog,  Sewing,  Vogue Patterns V2004

    Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004: The Fashion Fabric & Lining Fabric

    Hi everyone! It’s time for a new post in my series about how I made Vogue Pattern V2004! This time, I will be talking about the fabric I choose for the outer/fashion fabric and the lining fabric. By the time…

    By essieofwho May 23, 2024
  • Clothing,  My Blog,  Sewing,  Vogue Patterns V2004

    New Sewing Project! Sewing Vogue Pattern V2004

    Hi everyone! It’s been a few years since I wrote a series of posts about sewing clothing. I used to do this a lot for the costumes I made. Today, I prefer to make my own clothes instead of costumes!…

    By essieofwho May 16, 2024
  • Clothing,  Fashion,  My Blog,  Sewing

    McCall’s M8213 Dress Finished- What The Dress Looks Like and What I Think of The Pattern

    Hi everyone! Last year, in a post about my sewing plans for the season, I talked about making a dress using McCall’s pattern M8213. That was the last time I talked about it on this blog. Since the publishing of…

    By essieofwho March 14, 2024
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    A Few Sewing Summer Plans for 2023

    Hi everyone! It’s summer time and temperatures where I live are starting to become hotter. I need to stay inside more this summer, so I decided to pick up all the sewing plans I need to work this summer and…

    By essieofwho June 6, 2023
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    New Spring 2022 Sewing Patterns for Prom Dresses- Simplicity and New Look

    A few weeks ago, I wrote four posts about sewing patterns I think could make prom dresses. Since then, two of the big four sewing pattern companies released their Spring 2022 pattern collections. In these releases, there are new formal…

    By essieofwho February 22, 2022
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    Sewing Progress for May 22, 2021- Fall Quilt and Christmas Dress

    Through out the month of May, I tried to work on my sewing work in progress projects that I never got around to finish. I have so many of these that I’m very embarrassed to admit how many of them…

    By essieofwho June 2, 2021
  • Costume,  My Blog,  Sewing

    Takane Shijou’s Thank You Dress from Idolm@ster

    A Note Before Reading this Post… I wrote this post in April 2015, but never posted it because I wanted to make a few changes to the costume. In 2015, I did not go to Phoenix Comicon (Now known as…

    By essieofwho May 17, 2021
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  • The Navy and Yellow Scrap Quilt: The Finished Quilt Top
  • Learning How to Use Procreate (Again) and What to Do With My Unfinished Sketches

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