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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“Sew Many Dresses” by Tanya Whelan: My New Sewing Bible

The summer has been lingering on, bliss. On the one hand it slightly killed in the egg my enthusiasm for autumn sewing… so you’ll have to wait a bit longer for completed projects here. But the big positive is that I’ve been able to wear again the dresses I saw in the spring, using the great […]

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