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Sew What! – the First Project PHOTO!

June 11, 2010March 2, 2012 Angela Pea1 Comment

I’ve joined my bloggy friend Cynthia from The Sewing Dork, and her friend Michelle from When Wednesday Calls for Sew What!, a summer sew-along. Participants pick their fabric and tackle the challenge projects. The first project was a skirt, and my chosen fabric is cotton. I made the skirt and then it left for a while, but Teen Daughter #2 has FINALLY returned to the fold, laundered her skirt and took five minutes to model it for my camera. What a trooper!

Please Note – something this tiny only works if you are sixteen years old. If you need a little more coverge, head over to the Flickr album and see all the AMAZING denim skirts. I especially like this one from Michelle.

How easy is this? Peasy kind of easy. Open the inseam of a pair of jeans. Lay flat, and add an insert. Finish the hem. Here is a great tutorial, complete with pictures. Here is a fantastic tutorial from the excellent crew over at Threadbanger.

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Sew What!

June 3, 2010March 2, 2012 Angela Pea1 Comment

Okay – like I seriously have time to do any sewing? Why am I torturing myself?

Let’s see….it’s summer. I’m bored. I’m losing weight hand over fist and need to tailor all of my dress pants and skirts. I already dragged my sewing machine out of the closet to do some mending, so it’s already set up on the dining room table. It’s too hot to run outside. My fingers are just ITCHING to sew! Yes. That’s my reasoning, and it suits just fine!

I’m joining my bloggy friend Cynthia from The Sewing Dork, and her friend Michelle from When Wednesday Calls for Sew What!, a summer sew-along. Participants pick their fabric and tackle the challenge projects.

Click here for more info, as well as the blog button.

For myself, I’m choosing cotton fabrics – specifically recycled cottons, re-purposed cottons, stash-busting cottons!! Any cotton is fair game, as long as it supports my efforts for a responsible, sustainable lifestyle. And, just to be up front with the fact that I will be bending the rules to suit my own needs, I’m tackling the first denim skirt challenge by remaking a COTTON denim skirt that has become so large on me that it twists around when I walk. I just hate it when the fly zipper ends up on my left hip. Seriously.

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Another Stash Buster!!

February 17, 2010June 10, 2011 Angela Pea4 Comments

Another stash buster project – a lovely, softy, fluffy scarf. It’s made from Bernat Alpaca, and I used the pattern printed the label with a few finishing modifications. Instead of fringe on the end, I cinched the ends of the scarf and attached large tassles.