Astrogirl

I have two of these, one for athletics and one for fashion. (As a brief aside, SkirtSports is a great company – they really go the extra mile for their customers.) It’s got these amazing pockets on the thighs and a grommet in the skirt to pull a wire up from one of [...]

I’ve taken another crack at Butterick 5209, a 1947 re-issue pattern. This time, I made the other view…but…

The sleeves or the fabric made the whole thing look like a house dress. The picture is very cute, but it looked really dowdy on me, so I removed the sleeves. The bodice is self [...]

I have made two versions of this dress, but I’m only 100% done with this one:

No, this is not the most awesome picture. It’s blurry, and I probably should have ironed the dress. The thing is that I’ve already made two other things, so I’m too far behind to worry about pictures being [...]

I have a total of 36 images from the catalog (Flickr Set of the Whole Thing) up now. Still to come are Skirts, Jumpers, Sportswear, Young Juniors and a ton of Children’s patterns. After that, there’s Maternity, Loungewear and one page of Boys & Men. I will also put up the Singer and Coats and [...]

Yes, it’s a sewing post. I have been sewing lately, but not clothes. Back to that in a moment.

While cleaning out a bookshelf in my office, I found the Butterick Home Catalog from Spring 1961. I had *completely* forgotten I had it. Obviously, there’s a reason I cleaned out the bookshelf, [...]

If you sew much, you wind up with a lot of small pieces of fabric. Some are too small to do much of anything with them, though I have made some stuffed critters out of those. Some are just too small to make *clothes* out of, and that’s what I used up here.

I [...]

But I still don’t feel like writing about it. I know, I suck.

I made four tote bag thingies intended to be re-usable grocery bags. One, however, is too nice so now I have three. I have some more planned – they are a breeze to make.

They are all McCall’s 8259. When [...]

My sewing machine went away for a while. It was generally behaving badly, and there was something about of alignment involving feed dogs, needle height and presser feet. It’s fixed now, and sewing smoothly.

I have finished projects since my last post, and I have photographed them, but I can’t seem to be bothered [...]

Yeah. Awesome!

This was a Coats & Clark invisible zipper — really the only brand I have access to out here in the sticks. Clearly, I will have to make a stock-up run to G-Street if their quality is this unreliable.

I made a pair of pants (no write-up, no photo yet). I tested [...]