After my very simple dress, I decided to change gears and make something more complicated. I didn't make all those tiny dresses for noth...

This must have been my longest break from blogging in quite a while... I didn't mean to do it, it just happened.  I still couldn't ...

Not too long ago, I read post on someone else's blog about jeans. It once again reminded me that I could use another pair myself. The po...

And now for something completely different! I haven't used the Pattern Magic  books in a while, have I?  Well, I decided it was that ti...

So, I have made the pattern for that striped dress. I agreed with those of you who commented on my previous post and went with sketch number...

I didn't manage to fit in a lot of sewing last week. First I was really busy and then I got a nasty cold. I'm OK now and moving on w...

Just some bits of hand sewing to go and then the 1943 dress will be done! There are so many different fasteners in this one dress... I'l...

Before you get into this blog post, let me just apologize for the pictures... I asked E to take some quick snaps of my toile for the 1940...

Alright, so I still haven't moved passed sewing toiles... I hoped to get some real sewing done today but it just didn't happen. Howe...

This weekend, I started sewing a new dress. Not a vintage style dress and not a modern one. A comfortable dress, a garment to put on after a...

Just a word of warning: These are not my usual kind-of pretty pictures. These are what you get if I manage to squeeze in the sewing of a toi...