This is the Charm Patterns Maria dress which is a princess seam dress that makes a great base for many styles. The lines are clean. It’s straightforward and nice for a beginner to learn princess seams, but a satisfying sew for a more experienced sewist. So why do I also call it the Friendship Dress?…
This September I was lucky enough (or fast enough, depending on how you look at it) to get a spot in one of the Charm Patterns Dressmaking retreats up in Newburgh, New York. It was an amazing time! This was due primarily to the amazing group of women that that I got to attend with…
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…
I have some garment makes that I want to post, but first I want to wrap up my makes from our quilt guild retreat. One of the items we got was a little English Paper Piecing Kit from Paper Pieces. I’d never done EPP and these little kits are a great introduction. EPP seems like…
There were a couple other projects I worked on during the quilt retreat over Memorial Day weekend, but they’ll get posted when they’re done since they’re mostly gifts. But one more that was for guild efforts was making totes for a center that helps at-risk youth. The guild normally makes tote bags and pillowcases. When…
The third retreat project I worked on was the ByAnnie Mini Notebook Cover. The pattern as well as a correctly sized piece of Soft and Stable was part of our goodie bag. It was super awesome of ByAnnie to sponsor our retreat and this was a cute pattern that would make a fun gift! I’d…
The second retreat project was making a pair of slippers. The organizers provided us with some non-skid fabric to use for the bottom and sent out a list of free patterns, but I couldn’t just make basic slippers. I mean, it’s me. So, yeah, no. I was definitely going to make pig slippers. I perused…
My quilting guild retreat was supposed to be over Memorial Day weekend. I originally wasn’t supposed to go, but it got switched to a virtual retreat and since my original plans were cancelled, I was able to attend. The organizers did an amazing job with lots of fun projects, a 24 hour zoom room, a…