(like the rod stewart song)
i'm a millennial living in the bay area who loves dark beer, the environment, and sewing for the tiny humans in my life. more
All in general
no project, just pictures from a recent stonemountain & daughter trip with talia.
in addition to lavender victor and I are really digging the dylan family these days.
while bay area weather is just about always beautiful and perfect my hometown of ann arbor, michigan has some pretty intense winters.
i'm up in portlandia for a few days to see my favorite kindergartner and second grader. today we had a pretty awesome walk to school.
like many in the sewing world, i am on a constant quest to sew my stash. i've even gone so far as to proclaimed my desire to have less fabric all together, and consider myself am midway through a major two year fabric diet.
so today i'm going to share some of my favorite patterns for busting my stash.
I have quite a few fabric crushes these days. so indulge me for a minute.
(fair warning this is a lot of cotton + steel...and may end with a fabric purchase.)
fitz, who only recently developed the ability to get everywhere in the apartment, had been enjoying hiding amongst my patterns.
okay it's not a film, but v and I have been watching this Amazon series.
set in 1962 it's an alternative version of history in which natzi germany and japan had won World War Two. America fell and is now split into the japanese pacific states (west coast) and the greater natzi reich (east coast and mdwest) with a neutral zone in the middle (rockies). the main character juliana crain is a san francisco woman about my age who lives with her Jewish boyfriend until she joins the rebellion.
if i haven't stated it before, i'm officially jumping on the dropcloth sampler train because earlier this week i finished by second dropcloth sampler in a month.
I've previously spoken about my mission to sew all the oliver + s patterns. today I'm going to share how I came to acquire them.
when i was little my mother collected old nancy drew books. while other kids were reading goosebumps or the baby-sitters club, my sisters and i enjoyed nancy's adventures in her blue roadster.
after my fantastic experience with my first dropcloth sampler (more on that here and here) i was excited to try the second one my sister had sent me: the color wheel.
happy 2016 everyone!
one of my favorite stores in the bay area, stonemountain & daughter, has declared 2016 to be the 'year of the indie pattern' and is kicking off #indiepatternmonth today. as a long time patron of independent pattern companies i love this.
let me say that again for emphasis: i love this.
i've previously extolled my love of oliver + s, the crown jewel of independent patterns, and expressed my goal to sew all their styles. but in the spirit of the new year i wanted to share some other indie sewing patterns that have caught my eye and i want to sew in 2016.
following up from yesterday's post on all the tops i made this year and monday's post on all the skirts and dresses, today i'm going to review the jackets, pants, pajamas, and jackets i made in 2015.
following up from yesterday's post on all the skirts and dresses i made in 2015, today i'll recap all the tops i made this year.
i'm especially excited about this post because with the exception of all the tops i made in 2015 were patterns i hadn't sewn before this year.
