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I made my third pair of pants from Ottobre 3/2009/26, "Zoom Pirate Jeans". I left off the back pockets and fairly threw them toget...

I almost forgot the pants! (A sentence I luckily don't say too often.) Ich hätte fast die Hosen vergessen. (Und das wollen wir doch nich...

It's spring and the kids are growing like weeds... I've given up on trying to make all - or most of - their wardrobes, but there...

I sew quite a bit, but I have to admit that I mostly buy the vast amounts of pattern magazines for my own entertainment; if I calculated the...

First of all, thank you for the many lovely comments on my blouse and last post's girls' pants! I decided to follow your advice and ...

To start: my son, who has more fashion sense than I do apparently, noted that DD has a purple dress, albeit dark purple. So I was given free...

Today's outfit is for knocking around the house, a.k.a. hoping to get some sewing done. No makeup, no styling, as befits the day's i...

I mentioned in passing that I joined Me-Made-May , as created by the, well, creative Zoe. I loved following her adventures in homesewn garme...

The kiddos are in desperate need of pants (aren't they always?). Since I'm getting more and more stubborn about buying RTW when I ca...

Hello everybody! The holidays are behind us, but the decorations are still up, and I am only slowly coming to... Although I have been sewing...

The jacket is slow going, so here's a colorful little something to cheer me - and you - up! (front view) These pants have been made u...

So I finished the Ottobre pants, and DD still didn't have a thing (read: lined pants) to wear. I still had a remnant of teal corduroy ...

I've been sewing a bit, two pairs of girl's pants. Here's the first: As always with Ottobre I was a bit exasperated with all th...

The pants are done, have been fiercely worn already, and I lo-o-ove them. At first, I was sceptical - such a high yoke? Such low pockets? Bu...

First of all, I want to say thanks to everyone who has commented on my blog so far (and thank you for the especially nice comments on the gi...