Tag: Sewing
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Jessica Sews | Raglan Top + Wide Leg Dawn Jeans
Look how tall my son is!! He’s only 4.5 and already taller than the average 5 year old. Schroeder genes*, baby! *Everyone in my family is super tall – my dad is 6’6’’, my brother 6’7’’ and my sister 6’. I’m the shortie coming in at 5’9’’ One of the first spring pieces I made…
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Jessica Sews | Overalls Hack with Dawn Jeans
On to the next piece of my capsule wardrobe – my high waisted overalls! I had originally wanted to make the bib overall version of this pattern, but… I lost it! In a fervor to make something, I ordered the Megan Nielsen Dawn Jean as a pdf I could print at home. In the course…
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Jessica Sews | Beach Comber Blouse + Dawn Jeans
Greetings friends! I wish I could say we’re still in sunny Florida, but we’ve traded sand castles for snowmen back in Indiana. It’s coming down right now as I write this, so I’ll just transport myself back to ocean breezes and beach combing with my kids. For this trip, I made all my clothes. Ha!…
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Sewing FAQ
New to the sewing game? Thinking of taking up an awesome hobby? It’s never too late to learn how to sew! I went out to my Instafam and asked what questions you may have, so read on for some of the more frequently asked questions I get related to sewing! Where do I start? Assuming…
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Time Traveling | Early 19th Century Corded Stays
I’ve been on a sewing roll in 2019 and my latest project is a pair of early 19th century stays. As fashion moved towards a neoclassical influence around the turn of the century, the undergarments worn also evolved. Instead of shaping the torso into a conical shape (like my first pair of stays), the shape…
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Making an American Flag
Between going elbows deep into my own family tree and becoming fully intrenched into the Hamilton soundtrack and Revolutionary War history, somewhere along the way I decided I wanted to sew my own American Flag. And it’s kind of strange because I haven’t felt all that patriotic in the past year and a half. As…
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Throwback Thursday | Mommy + Me Edition
Back when I made this romper for Bea Bea I vaguely thought back to an outfit from my own childhood – a red, white and blue dress I wore for my kindergarden school photo in the late 80s. When I was cleaning out my garage a few weeks back I found the actual portrait…
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Springtime Romper for Beatrix
Occasionally I find myself out and about with a little time to kill before picking Felix up from school and inevitably end up either thrifting or at a fabric/craft/home improvement store, dreaming up what project to take on next. If you’ve been with me for a while you know mama loves a project. I probably…