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Pomegranate Pierrot with shirring

Posted October 12, 2012

As you can see, she’s outgrown the pink boots.

KCWC sew-off challenge #4: Shirred Pierrot

I made this tunic with fabric harvested from the ill-conceived “Prairie Girl Top” of Spring Top Week 2010 that I think I actually never wore. That was a particularly bad year for spring top execution, as I had a considerable amount of baby weight to lose yet, so nothing really fit, and for some I reason bit off waaay more than I could chew that year design-wise when planning out my tops (does anyone remember the Clown Top?). Not a great idea considering I had an 11-month old baby.

I remember that I fussed and fussed with that top, and even after fussing…

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mini washi + mama washi

Posted October 11, 2012

{I swear this is the last of the mini-washi posts, I promise!}

Between the super-cloudy day yesterday and the post-preschool preschooler, I had a hard time getting even one picture of mini washi + mama washi* that was any good. This is how SHE wanted it to go down:

So we had a few of these (holding the remote):

(and dropping the remote)

And we finally got one where we’re both smiling (sort of), but the camera was pointed in the wrong direction and cut off half of Clementine. GAH.

We managed to get a couple cute shots, even if they aren’t print-worthy:

This was my favorite, but of course it came out blurry. Isn’t that the way it always goes?…

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Summersville Washi Tunic

Posted August 14, 2012

Washi Week!!! OK, last one, I promise (for now).

I admit I fell pretty hard for Lucie Summers‘ Summersville collection. It’s so modern and basic, I can see it as table linens, boy shorts for Elliot, twirly skirts for Clementine and Wiksten tanks. So I bought a pile.

And the paint-brush stroke print just seemed perfect for a casual Washi top, with shorts in the summer or jeans and a cardi in the winter. I admit that normal persons would probably not wear it with green skinnies, but then I am not a normal person.

But just to show that I can pull off “normal,” here it is with a pair of jeans:

Here you get a nice view of the…

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Aqua Double Gauze Washi Dress

Posted August 10, 2012

Another Washi Week Washi for you today, just in time for you to sew your own this weekend!

If you want to make absolutely the most comfortable Washi Dress in the universe, you really must try double gauze. It is SO. SOFT! Wearing this dress is like wearing pajamas. Is that not a good thing to say?

(earrings from bsidemetalworks)

I purchased this Echino double gauze from Charmstitch about a month ago and regret to inform you that it was the last on the bolt. However, Laura still carries a number of Nani Iro double gauzes that are just as gorgeous. They are definitely worth the price, though I would never have cut…

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Washi Maxi Dress in pink voile

Posted August 8, 2012

Washi Week continues!

UPDATE: The Washi Dress Sewing Pattern is now available! (please note: instructions for this maxi version are not included in the pattern, though you could make one very easily using the information in the length adjustment section. A tutorial for the maxi will be coming soon!)

I could hardly wait to show you this one because I just absolutely la la love it to pieces. It is a maxi version of the Washi Dress, made with Anna Maria Horner‘s Loulouthi voile.

Quick! Trivia question!! Who’s been reading this blog long enough to know where that necklace came from? Anyone?

It was harder than I thought to get the full shot of this dress. Here’s the best I’ve got:…

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Aqua Washi Tunic

Posted August 7, 2012

It’s Washi Week!!!

UPDATE: The Washi Dress Sewing Pattern is now available!

I should have designed a button or something but I didn’t want to waste time making a button when I should be GETTING THE PATTERN OUT. I make it sound like I’m actually doing some hard crazy work here but actually all I’ve been doing is sewing up Washis of various shapes and sizes to test every last detail and then sending the edits over to poor Elli, who is working like a slave on the layouts and has been every kind of patient with me as I change this and that and the next thing. Yesterday I had a photo shoot with the three latest versions of the pattern I’ve…

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Birthday Dress

Posted July 31, 2012

Clementine’s Birthday dress!

It was perfect for running after bubbles,

playing in the sandbox,

pulling around her new suitcase,

riding her new bike,

(though a bit of modification was needed for the actual bike-riding)

and, extra bonus, it coordinated nicely with the Birthday Hat:

Happy 3rd Birthday Clementine!!!

Fabric by Sarah Jane, from her “Children at Play” line (and be sure to check out “Out to Sea,” her latest line with a nautical theme that is just as adorable!)

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Traced Teal Tee

Posted July 13, 2012

A couple of weeks ago I taught the Trace and Make Tee class here in Ann Arbor along with my friend Karen. I wanted to make another tee just to make sure I knew what I was doing before the class so I pulled out the teal rib knit I’d bought earlier this year from Brenda at Pink Castle for the knit series and made a short-sleeved version of the striped 3/4-length-sleeve tee I posted earlier on this blog, which was traced from a tee I own. And what the heck, why do I always have this same serious expression on my face? I guess I need to start laughing more…

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Colorblock Pearl Bracelet Dress

Posted July 5, 2012

A little friend of Clementine’s turned two a few weeks ago and I made her this little dress as a present. Couldn’t help myself. How could I help myself when these three Lizzy House prints go SO WELL TOGETHER? No answer. I must say she looked quite fetching in it the other day at the Ann Arbor Hands On Museum. So cute!!!

The ambulance at the museum was an unexpected hit (with all of our kids).

A bit more about the fabric:
For the last couple years, Lizzy House has been putting out new colors of this circle print (called “Pearl Bracelets”) each time she designs a new line of fabric. I made the now-”iconic” pair of…

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Orange Washi with white pom-poms

Posted June 28, 2012

UPDATE: The Washi Dress sewing pattern is now available here

It’s been just over a month since I posted the Washi Dress and I can tell from the emails and comments I’ve been getting that some of you are starting to get antsy for the pattern. I’m happy to report that Elli (my uber-talented graphics queen) and I are making good progress. I know it seems slow, but it must. be. perfect. Six sizes now instead of five (upper chest roughly 41″ on the largest size), so that’s good too. Slow and steady wins the race, I say. No good to put out something that I don’t feel is totally excellent. I also talked to Rashida Coleman-Hale (designer of…

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