This adorable pattern is the Love Notions Rhapsody Blouse and I’m quite happy with how it turned out. You might recognize the fabric from my Meet You There Dress. It’s some viscose crepe that I got at Stonemountain & Daughter and was once again very nice to work with. It presses so nicely though it does start to…
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Happy New Year! It’s a new year although I’m still wrapping up posting projects from last year. I’ve got some that I’m super excited about but still need to get decent photos, so I’ll just start posting the ones I do have photos of starting with this one. Although arguably I only have the one…
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This past October, I took a 2-day pie baking class at the San Francisco Baking Institute. I learned so much about baking pies! Completely changed the way I do it now. With Thanksigving and plenty of people to eat my pies, I took the opportunity to get in lots of practice. I made over 25…
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My quilt guild does 2 retreats every year — one in person and one virtual. The in-person one never seems to work out for me schedule-wise so I try to make the virtual one. Especially as our numbers grew beyond our local area physically during the pandemic, the virtual one has been a lot of…
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This cute number is the Pattern Emporium Take The Chance Dress. I actually did the pattern test for this a couple of weeks ago, but due to life getting in the way I’m only now getting a chance to do the full write up on it. Overall, it’s a solid pattern like most of the…
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It’s been a while since I posted because I’ve been traveling to various parts of my great country as well as to others (and, of course, working in between trips). One of the places I visited was Ireland for a week. Ireland is a stunningly beautiful country and I can’t wait to go back. We…
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As promised in my Grab A Cuppa Cardi post, here’s a review of the Pattern Emporium Foxy Legs pants. I made this to go with the cardigan, but really I had bought that black organic French terry from Califabrics years ago for the purpose of making short joggers just like these. I have a really…
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I had my first quilt in a quilt show! It was my guild’s quilt show this past May and this was the quilt which I named Cool Kisses on a Warm Day because of the cool blue “kiss” squares on the warm red background. The quilt itself was the result of a workshop on color…
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This is the second version I made of the Pattern Emporium Grab A Cuppa Cardi as part of the pattern test. For this one I went much sportier than the last and I love how the look turned out. This is the kinda stuff I live in around the house so I know it’s going…
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I know what you’re thinking — another pattern test? Yes, and this is the third in the group, but I promise it’s just as good as the last two. Pattern Emporium decided to launch 3 patterns at once. They’re based in Australia so sometimes they’ll do that so they can hit the summer and winter…
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