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Fleece Pants, Episode 3: Syo
Booyeah Otherwise known as, “just because I have to be different.” Although Syo has thoroughly enjoyed her Jalie 3022 shorts, she has no interest in flared yoga-pants, fleece or otherwise. She is a...
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Fleece Pants, Episode 3 (part II)
Fleece Leggings Sick of fleece pants yet? Yeah? Too bad. It snowed every day this week, except for the bright sunny days with windchills in the -30s C. This is not what I want from the end of March,...
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Interlude
While I grapple with the enormity that is wedding sewing and try to put together something resembling a coherent post (hah!), let me entertain you, however fleetingly, with a top Syo made herself. It...
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And something for Syo
Syo was a bit put out with all the work on Tyo’s grad dress. She didn’t even get her onesie yet (I know, major mommy fail.) and here I am working on another big project for her sister? (To be fair, Tyo...
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Dancy-pants Jr.
Kwik Sew 3498 Syo also wants Fauxlodias. For whatever reason, I didn’t want to make her some just like mine, from Jalie 3022, so I looked around and eventually went out and bought (!) Kwik Sew 3498....
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Christmas Sewing Begins
Really late, yes. Shush. My plans are modest—this pair of dancey-flares for Syo, based on this Kwik Sew kids’ yoga pants pattern (KS3498). It shouldn’t take more than a couple of hours, provided I can...
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Little elves…
… Would have been desperately welcome. PJ-Palooza In the end, I did pull it off. Despite having as much No Time as usual, I made more Xmas presents than I think I ever have before. Four pairs of PJ...
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Little sweaters
Cloned sweater. Conflict was much reduced when the sisters didn’t have to fight over the original. One of the styles (my) contemporary teenagers like is a fairly shrunken, close-fitting version of the...
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Class Samples: Sew Over It Rosie Dress
In my head, I’m calling this the Into The Woods Dress. Back last winter, when I first floated the notion of teaching a class for the Sew Over I Rosie Dress, I was envisioning a fun, maybe quirky...
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The Graduate
Thanks to COVID-19 it was a very strange, sad year to graduate high school. Syo (now seventeen, not seven) missed out on a lot this year—school musical, dance classes, Pom and cheer, and while our...
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