Astrogirl

So, I made these Marcie Tilton pants. What makes them “wearable art” (so says the envelope), I don’t know.

This photo looks a lot better than my envelope, so I’m using it instead of my envelope scan. It does not say anything about “wearable art”, so you’ll just have to take my word for [...]

Last week, I recycled two old items into two new, unrelated items. The easy item was these gloves:

They are quite warm, warmer than any of my arm warmers, I think because of the seams between the fingers. I do have one pair of fingerless gloves, but they are thin cotton knit and more [...]

About a year ago, when I was still buying vintage patterns on eBay, I came to the conclusion that buying huge lots was the most economical way to get vintage patterns. Individual patterns and smaller lots tend to get bid up quickly, if they are any good. Giant (almost) blind lots on the [...]

I’m just finishing up Kwik-Sew 3567. I have not hemmed the bottom and sleeves yet. Photos and pattern review coming after I do that, but this is the third time I’ve made up this pattern. This time, I’m doing View C’s collar, but with long sleeves. It’s from two knit remnants [...]

This time, I actually wrote on the damn deltor to remind myself what the nice folks at Simplicity mean (in this case) by “facing” and “extension”. It’s way ambiguous. Yeah, I wrote on it, but It’s not like I’m ever selling this pattern anyway!

Let’s see, also, the buttonholes gave me hell AGAIN. [...]

I’m currently working on this blouse:

I’ve made this particular blouse pattern twice before.

This one is more of a wearable muslin, though I don’t get much wear out of it. I have to remember to think of it if I’m wearing a jumper, because it’s too short to wear with things that hit at the [...]

I have actually written pattern reviews for all the sewing I’ve done this year so far. I can hardly believe it! I have photos of everything. They may not be awesome photos, but it’s better than no photo. I want to stay on this path so I can see just how [...]

I don’t have as big of a fabric stash as a lot of sewers do, but baby, it ain’t small. I am going on a fabric diet, damn it! The problem is that I will need notions, and that will entail going to a fabric store. This is dangerous for someone on [...]

I’m taking baby steps towards updating the blog with my more recent sewing projects that include stretch velvet mock turtlenecks (4 shirts and 2 different Kwik-Sew patterns), a Advance vintage skirt made from a G-Street Fabrics wool skirt length, a holiday skirt in $5 a yard taffeta and a couple of pairs of funky leggings [...]

So, I’ve made a coat and two pair of leggings. I have no pictures of the leggings as yet. I used the now TNT Kwik-Sew 3455 for those.

I do have a photo of the coat, but I neglected to snap a picture of the lining (it’s plum, and a pretty standard lining fabric). [...]