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{Out and About: Downton Abbey, The Movie}

September 20, 2019 by kelerr

This is going to be a short and sweet post today, mainly because I neglected to schedule a post for today earlier in the week and scrambled to write this at midnight last night! (And then at 12:17 I accidentally reloaded it and lost half my work!) So here’s what I was able to accomplish: A few months ago, the trailer for the new Downton Abbey movie was released, and it’s glorious. Now, if you’re not a fan of Downton […]

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{Out and About: Friends Pop-Up Museum}

September 17, 2019 by kelerr

“I’ll be there for you…” For me, the show Friends defined my adolescence and young adulthood. It premiered when I was in 8th grade, continued through high school and college and ended at the end of my first year of teaching. It saw me through the ages of 13-24 and probably shaped a lot of what I thought my twenties and early thirties should look like (spoiler alert: they looked nothing like the show!). When I saw that there was […]

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{Fall Sewing Plans}

September 13, 2019 by kelerr

Confession time: I had a lot of trouble coming up with today’s post. This hasn’t happened since earlier in the year when I committed to a regular blogging schedule. So far, I haven’t missed a single entry day, though I will admit that many have been down to the wire! Over the summer, I was able to prep a bunch of posts in advance, but back to work busy-ness and fatigue set in hard this week. I was hoping that […]

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{Out and About: End of Summer Outings}

September 10, 2019 by kelerr

It’s hard to believe that summer vacation is a thing of the past now. Ten free weeks to travel between home and upstate at my leisure was amazing, and I enjoyed it while it lasted. Though it wasn’t a crazy exciting summer, it was restful and definitely something I needed. I tried to make the most of the time I had, and as August drew to a close, I took advantage of having one more long weekend off from work […]

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{My Makes for August}

September 6, 2019 by kelerr

Oh, man. I went back to work this week and I am exhausted! The first week back is always the roughest, and I’ve gotten home everyday and just completely vegged out on the couch. So far, no sewing has really occurred in September (just a few starts that I need to get back to), but I’m kind of okay with that right now, as I managed to produce six new items in August! First up we have the Chalk and […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Fashion, Me Made, Sewing

{What I Read in August}

September 3, 2019 by kelerr

August was not quite as productive as July as far as reading goes (however, I surprised myself with sewing, as you’ll see in Friday’s post!). I managed to add three more books to my reads of the year, bringing the total to thirty-three books. My goal is fifty… but with Frozen costuming starting this month, I don’t know if I’ll make it there. We shall see. First up, we had The Turn of the Key by Ruth Ware. I was […]

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{The Dreaded Unfinished Project Pile}

August 30, 2019 by kelerr

I am the typist of sewist who likes to have more than one project going at a time. Most of the time, I find this makes me more productive. When I get stuck on a step I don’t want to do right away, I can work on something different rather than procrastinate. This is in part why I am able to complete projects so quickly (or often why it seems like I’m completing projects so quickly – I tend to […]

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{Tried and True Patterns: The Heather Dress}

August 27, 2019 by kelerr

It’s time for another Tried and True Patterns feature! In order for me to consider a pattern tried and true, I need to have made it at least three times, and this month the Sew Over It Heather dress joined the list. I successfully made my third version of this comfy jersey dress. I was wary of Heather at first glance. I was concerned that it would have a boxy, unflattering fit, but after looking at a lot of samples […]

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{Pattern Review: Wren Dress}

August 23, 2019 by kelerr

Like much of what I make, I became interested in the Colette Patterns Wren Dress after seeing someone else’s on their Instagram account. It was one of those situations in which I was vaguely familiar with the pattern, but because I didn’t like the view in the picture, I didn’t explore the other options. And while I don’t like the cover version of the dress, the other view is amazing. So I set to work on the dress. Colette is […]

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