Three Cara dresses for my teenager

Let’s change a bit of color-scheme and style on the blog! Today I’m showing you the dresses I made for my teenage daughter for the winter, using the Cara pattern by La Maison Victor. Sewing for teenagers is a minefield (and I refuse to make jeans or cropped hoodies!) and I was amazed she was […]

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Wedding Outfit for Young Lady, Number 2

After a very long article about Miss Migonne #2’s wedding guest outfit (here),  it seems only fair to devote another blog post to her sister’s. I promise it will be much shorter as the pattern  – Pernette by Citronille – and the changes I made are the same. Only the fabrics differ. Outfit negotiations lasted […]

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Babydoll Dress Variations

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P&M patterns are dear to my heart, as they were the first I ever bought and used when I started sewing clothes (instead of solely curtains) a few years ago. And Babydoll is definitely the dearest of all, as it is the first dress I ever saw for my girls – for a dress-fanatic like me, it really […]

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Wedding Outfit for Young Lady

As those who follow me on Instagram will have probably guessed, we have an important wedding coming up. And sewing part of the family’s wedding outifts – in particular the girls’ – has been top on my priority list. Long gone are the times when I could just chose whichever pattern (Citronille mostly), fabric (Liberty […]

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