I’m so excited to post about this! When I met Dana, I fell in love with the skirt she was wearing. She made it herself (obviously) and she showed us how simply she’d shirred the waistband. The next day, during the mystery workshop at Whipstitch, we were encouraged to use thrifted tees. I’m devastatingly terrified [...]

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A few weeks ago, my sister and I started formulating an idea. My Mom had wanted to take her Granddaughters out for tea before they went back to school (my kids would just be tag-alongs as they’re obviously not school-aged yet). But since our girls are so young, we figured it would be more fun [...]

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WHEW! It’s been a busy 2 weeks around here! I never expected my etsy store to take off the way it did, and I had a line of projects already stacked up before those orders came in. In 10 days I managed to make 9 shirts, 4 bibs, 2 burp cloths, 3 baby blocks, 2 [...]

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I feel bad that my blog has been slightly neglected while I sew my orders this week, so I decided to pull out something from the past to share. I’ve been thinking about making one of these for Sofie because I think she’d LOVE it now. Last March I was trying to come up with [...]

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So last year after my massive bean bag creating for my friends, I thought other people might like them and listed them in my etsy store. Not only did I not get sales, but hardly anyone looked at them. 4 months went by with nothing, so I let the listings expire and abandoned my store. [...]

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