“Well, anyway let me say you’re welcome.” — Maui David had a request for me. The drive in theater that he works at would soon be showing Moana 2, could I make him a Moana shirt? Of course I could! I’ve been trying to use up fabric that I already have, or I try to…
Category: 2000 And Beyond
Alice And Stitch
“Ohana means family, family means no one gets left behind or forgotten.”~Lilo While at a fabric store, Elizabeth found Lilo and Stitch fabric. Since Alice is a huge fan she showed Alice the fabrics and she chose this one as her favorite. Through my patterns she then went and found this year 2000 pattern with…
The Pillowcase Dress
“We should live and labor in our time that what came to us as a seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom, may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress.”~Henry Ward Beecher I had this fun pattern in my collection and…
Kira’s Mystery Bag
“I paint my own reality.”~Frida Kahlo Kira has been away at college, and in her down time she looked through my pattern collection. I have all of my patterns on an app, and can share access to them with anyone who wants to look at them. She saw this bag pattern, and asked if I…
Homespun Apron
“If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing well. If it is worth having, it is worth waiting for. If it is worth attaining, it is worth fighting for. If it is worth experiencing, it is worth putting aside time for.” ~ Oscar Wilde I really liked the look of this apron. It…
Grateful For What Is Given
“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”~Theodore Roosevelt I had scrap fabric leftover from Mia’s Mystery Dress. I didn’t want such wonderful, and vintage fabric scraps it to go to waste. I decided to piece it together and make a scrap bag! See previous blog post where this fabric was featured,…
A Gift To And From Kira
“Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for it is the stuff life is made of.”~Benjamin Franklin It was the beginning of December, and Kira was in a transition period. She was preparing to go off to college in Southern California after taking a semester off and working. She had put in her…
What We Give
“We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.”~Winston S. Churchill With my two year mark of my blog behind me and my third year beginning I had lots of things to reflect about. As I look back on my last two years of trying to sew every…
Loveliness In Green
“Green is the prime color of the world, and that from which its loveliness arises.” ~Pedro Calderon de la Barca While having a sewing day with my nieces, to sew a dress for Jenna (See previous blog post,”Jenna’s Summer Vacation”) Kira started looking through my patterns. She found this shirt pattern and loved it! I…
Jenna’s Summer Vacation
My niece Jenna was going on a vacation to Hawaii, and I offered to make her a dress for the occasion. I sent her pictures of different patterns that I thought fit her style, and she chose this one. We had to coordinate a day for her to come over, get measured, pick fabric, and…