notes from a mad housewife

i made this dress quite a while ago but it never made it to ye olde blog. mostly because i wasn't that excited about it. i used mccalls ...

new years day i started coming down with a cold. there is nothing like starting to feel sick that highlights to me my lack of lazying around...

today starts the voting for the pattern review "sewing for children" contest . this is the first time i've been put together e...

you know when you get about 7/8ths of the way through a project and you can see the finish line...  but it just feels like ...

i made up a quick skirt for my daughter, anastasia, using a pattern from burdastyle.com . love or hate the .pdf pattern downloads, the tapin...

i definitely struggled with this dress more than i thought i would, but it all worked out in the end.  i chose mccalls 5927 because of the ...

i had wanted to muslin and tweak and muslin again for my plaid dress, but time slowly got away from me so i had to streamline the process a ...