Simplicity 7030: Something for the Payer of Fabric Store Invoices

  The last few weeks were dominated by two men’s shirts creating a bottleneck in the sewing flow. The man of the house had been throwing sideways comments about “never getting anything”.  Not quite true, I made him a shirt already this year (two if you consider I made the same shirt twice because I …

No room for error, nowhere to hide…

The previous post was published without a picture.  See, I figured I could type the text while I was watching Master Chef, and then post a picture once I had taken one...which would be once I had actually, well...finished the shirt. Which was supposed to be about half an hour later because the shirt, at …

The Christmas-in-April Shirt

I made a shirt! A real manly-man's shirt! It is a first. When The Husband bought me my Pfaff last year, lots of hints were made about shirts. So I did buy a few shirt fabric options...boasting about how I had just bought enough fabric to make three shirts for the price of one RTW. …

Memory Lane: My Son’s Dashing MF Outfit

  Instead of working, I am going to traipse down memory lane.  Last year I wanted to start bloggin more regularly but didn't get around to it much, so at the time I created the Matric Farewell outfit for Big Son I did not document the process except for the final results on PatternReview. I …