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Progress Update on My Winter Mountain Embroidery Kit
Hi everyone! In 2023, I decided to pick up embroidery again. I used to embroider in my teens and early twenties, but I stopped due to health concerns I had (They were unrelated to my hands, yet it impacted them) and to focus on other things. In 2023, I decided to pick up embroidery as a hobby again. Even though I really liked embroidery, it had been many years since I used it as a hobby. Because of this, I was unsure if I could remember all the embroidery stitches and create them as well as I used to. So, I decided to purchase embroidery kits off Amazon to help…
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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 essentials (Actually, just one essential) I purchased for the dress.
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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 used and if I thought it was a good choice or not.
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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 this post is published, the dress is already completed! The reasons why I decided to delay posts about making it in a more realistic time is due to the fact I had some fit problems with the bodice. I know what went wrong and how to fix it, but I needed time to focus on it instead of writing posts about the dress in real time. I will go into…
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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! Since I shifted my attention to sewing clothing for myself, I decided to document my process of making clothing in blog posts. The piece of clothing I decided to make is a summer dress using Vogue Pattern’s V2004. I planned on making this pattern for an Easter dress, but the physical pattern didn’t arrive until after Easter. I decided to use cotton sateen fabric to make view A (AKA the…
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Castle Sketch of a Pexel Stock Photograph (And a Talk About My High Expectations for My Art)
Hi everyone! Recently, I’ve become more and more pessimistic about my drawing abilities. I know why my sketches are not turning out as nicely as I want them to, but this been really putting me in a pessimistic mindset. I’m normally quite a pessimistic person and, even though I do feel optimistic, I am pessimistic most of the time. This is why I think my sketches are making me so frustrated. They are not matching up with my high expectations for them. Whenever I approach my art, or anything in general, in my normal pessimistic state of mind, I am more concerned about preparing and practicing before I move forward…
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Sewing Project List for the End of Winter 2023
Hi everyone! Spring Solstice (AKA the beginning of spring) will be here next month. I am both happy to see warmer temperatures come back, but I also despise the warmer temperatures. Living in Arizona is not fun during the summertime! Even though summertime will be no fun due to the heat, I always look forward to wearing cute, light weight clothing. This year, I plan on making myself more clothes than I buy. I’m not sure if this will work out the way I plan, but I am hopeful I will have the clothes to wear more cute spring and summertime outfits than in previous years. Even if it means…
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Throw Pillow Knitted Test Panel Progress
Hi everyone! It’s time for another knitting project progress post series! This time, I decided to make a throw pillow cover. I found a vintage knitting pattern on Etsy for a throw pillow cover. I really liked the way it looked, so I purchased it. The cover is created by knitting a front and back to create the cover. Even though the idea caught my eye, I wanted to sew a fabric backing to a knitted front panel. I wasn’t sure if it would work out right, but I wanted to give it a try. In order to see if it would work out the way I thought it would,…
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My Finished Hot Water Bottle Cozy- Version 1
Hi everyone! After the fiasco of using a knitting pattern to make a hot water bottle cozy, I decided to try to invent my own knitting pattern. I felt confident to make one free hand (Without planning out the pattern before I started to knit) so I took the yarn I used to make the original cozy and began to work on it again. This new version, which I call version 1, does fit, but there are things I wanted to change before I was finally satisfied with the way the pattern is. I changed everything I didn’t like for version 2, which ended up turning out so well, it…
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Pink and Green Log Cabin Quilt Block Pattern Ideas
It’s been a while since I talked about my work on the Pink and Green Log Cabin Quilt, but to be honest, there hasn’t been much progress since my last post about the quilt. Even though I don’t have much to report about the quilt, I do have old photographs I took of the quilt as reference that I can use in posts! Since I’m still working on the quilt, I decided to talk about some of the old reference photographs as fill in topics to write posts about. Two of the photographs I want to talk about are of the placement and layout of the blocks. Since I used…
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