I finished sewing these shorts late Thursday night, and I was really on the fence about how I felt about them. Then I tried them on again Friday morning, before going to the thrift store, and decided they weren’t all that bad. And I proceeded to wear them for the rest of the day, and Saturday too! I think the … Continue reading “Anna Allen – Pomona Shorts, Mid-Rise”
Hi friends! Just a little blog name update — This is now The Sewing Things Blog! When I started blogging 6 years ago, I had just started sewing, and still wasn’t committed (read: scared) to making this a sewing blog. My husband and I did a lot of different things that I would blog about, so ‘The Doing Things Blog’ … Continue reading “Blog + Life Update”
Today I’m sharing a blouse that I’ve been wanting to make for a while now, but I felt really apprehensive about the style. I have another fabric that I wanted to make with this pattern, but I decided to use this fabric that I thrifted as a wearable muslin to see what I thought first. This pattern is a vintage … Continue reading “Trying New Things: Puff Sleeves (Vintage McCalls 7939)”
I know that I’m a broken record when it comes to this pattern, but I thought since it was Hey June…June (haha) I would share about my first time making the Union St Tee, because it’s a story that I don’t think a lot of people here know. My first time making the Union St Tee by Hey June was … Continue reading “Throwback to My First Indie Pattern – Union St Tee”
Now that we’re more than halfway through June, I figured I would still give a little bit of an update on my Me Made May Closet Re-Evaluation. I learned quite a lot about my closet just by organizing it by color. I also had a few people comment on my Instagram post about taking dresses they made that they didn’t … Continue reading “Me Made May 2021: Closet Refashions”
I’ve gotta be honest with you when I say that I have no idea what I’m doing when it comes to linen pants. Outside of jeans and sweats, I feel very lost — mostly because that’s what I’ve worn for most of my life! But I was thinking about it the other day, and I just had to think – … Continue reading “Free Range Slacks + Envelope Dress Refashion”
Hi friends! It is Me Made May this month in the sewing community. It’s a very loose challenge where you set sewing goals for yourself and/or try to wear ‘me made’ clothes every day of the month. I will admit right off the bat that I have about 15 tabs open on my phone for fabric and patterns that I … Continue reading “Me Made May 2021: Closet Re-evaluation”
It seems like every time I write a blog post it always starts with how long I have waited to finally make something — but by some miracle, I actually bought both this pattern and fabric just in the past few months! Hooray! The Marlo Sweater is a new pattern by True Bias. It’s an oversized style cardigan/sweater, which is … Continue reading “Marlo Sweater – Two Ways”
I just want to start out by sharing that I bought this fabric in November 2018. Shortly afterwards, in January 2019 I went ahead and bought this pattern… It’s April 2021, ya’ll! The last time I had made anything like this was in October 2016 when I made the Lonetree Jacket. That jacket took a lot of work, and I … Continue reading “Pauline Alice – Tello Jacket”
I never felt very motivated to sew jackets or coats while we were living in California (that’s when I really started to sew more, in general). But now that we live in the PNW, I have really felt the pull to make some jackets. I’ve learned that you pretty much need a jacket year round here, so I didn’t just … Continue reading “Wiksten – Unfolding Jacket”
