I’ve given one of my most popular patterns a facelift, updated some of the text, and added a few more illustrative images. Come take a look – it’s skirt-wearing season!
Read More: Upgraded: Spring Wrap Skirt!Upgraded: Spring Wrap Skirt!
Tag: skirts
Fun with vintage sheets, part two
I sewed six more things from vintage sheets in the past week. Wanna see?
Read More: Fun with vintage sheets, part twoSew a Skirt Month!
What’s better than a Summer skirt that fits you in all the right places? Not much! July is Sew a Skirt Month at Polka Dot Cottage. Come see what we have planned!
Read More: Sew a Skirt Month!Robot Overlord Fabric? Cool.
I designed this fabric, featuring my husband’s Clarkesworld Magazine Robot Overlord, and you can get some if you like! Coming soon: a skirt tutorial and a book tote tutorial, both featuring the robots.
Read More: Robot Overlord Fabric? Cool.I Like My Skirts Fast and Cheap, 2.0
Whether you are motivated by frugality, by the desire to live in an eco-friendly way, or by an abundance of fun and funky vintage sheets in your linen closet, this simple tutorial should appeal to you.
Read More: I Like My Skirts Fast and Cheap, 2.0Another wrap and a wardrobe question
I am beginning to think that wrap skirts are going to be for the Summer of 2011 what elastic-waist skirts were for the Summer of 2007. Time will tell, but I’m already off to a pretty good start. Here is the latest, made a few weeks ago to wear to Eamonn’s First Communion. Pattern: Spring […]
Read More: Another wrap and a wardrobe questionWrapped up
Thank you, if you commented on my last post, emailed me, or posted on Facebook. It meant a lot to me. In flipping through the (many) skirts hanging in my closet this weekend, I realized that they were all in happy floral quilting cottons, funky thrifted bedsheets, or silly novelty fabrics. Nothing really struck me […]
Read More: Wrapped upSummer Studio
Still experimenting with photographic pendants, in this installment of Summer Studio, come see the bits and pieces on my clay table, along with some of the other creative things I’ve got going on.
Read More: Summer StudioScratching that itch
The sewing machine has been liberated from it’s basement prison, and I am scratching that itch. What did I choose to make? Something that wasn’t even on my list… I’m making a nice little pile of skirts in vintage fabrics. They’re (mostly) not for me, though. They’re destined for the shop, in fact. I’ve been […]
Read More: Scratching that itchJoy in the daydream
Skirt weather has arrived, and oh, how I have missed it! I didn’t realize quite how much until I spent yesterday twirling around in my favorite a-line. Skirt-wearing brings a sort of effervescence with it that I find hard to capture in other ways. I suppose it’s just that it makes me feel “girly,” which […]
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