(like the rod stewart song)
i'm an elder millennial living in the bay area who loves dark beer, the environment, and sewing for the tiny humans in my life.
All in little girl apparel
shut the front door our friends are procreating?
to celebrate i made their baby girl an outfit. maybe it's the ann arbor in me but doesn't this outfit look like it should be worn to the farmers market?
the sunday brunch coat was actually the second oliver + s pattern i ever made, way back when maya was a baby.
my craftsmanship was much improved (i.e. more hand sewing) this time around: better seam binding technique, under stitching, french seams, edge stitching, and a blind stitched hem.
about a year ago i made the ambitious decision to take both nora and etta to the fabric depot in portland.
all three of us immediately fell in love with this poppy print. envisioning the garden party dresses by oliver + s, we also picked up some coordinating solid fabric, and two very fun flower buttons.
then i started a new job and this fabric sat in my stash.
and sat.
and sat.
after an enchanting encounter at the detroit zoo lead to a new fascination and favorite animal my sister and i decided maya had to be a peacock for halloween.
my vision was for a dress that could later be worn independently and some sort of detachable fan. i set out to find some 'abstract-in-pattern-and-peacock-esq-color-scheme' fabric for the dress. my first trip out i came across this apples fabric from the liberty of london fruits and leaves collection at gather here. jackpot.
sometimes i can't even take credit for the concept behind my work.
my sister sent me a drawing nora did of her dream dress: purple polka dots, three quarter length sleeves, collar, and most importantly a twirly skirt.
i combined the tinny dress pattern from straight grain with some purple polka dot fabric from a local fabric store and a few weeks later nora received her dream dress as birthday present.
i guess you could say these are the dresses that really started me sewing.
june 2012: i took my new bike out for a spin and grabbed some coffee at 1369 (if you haven't been there and are ever in boston i highly recommend it, it's quite possibly the most darling coffee shop of all time).
then i wandered into gather here (an amazing fabric store in cambridge, massachusetts). when i emerged an hour or so later i had my first oliver + s pattern: the family reunion dress, a few yards of quilting cotton, some buttons, and thread.
