September 2020

{Costume Design: Belle’s Village Dress from Beauty and the Beast}

September 29, 2020 by kelerr

NOTE: This is a repost from the old blog archives before I moved everything over to Sew Fancy Brooklyn. Unfortunately we are in musical limbo for the foreseeable future. Being back at work makes me feel really nostalgic and sad about it, so I thought I’d share some previous show work (also I completely forgot today was Tuesday and I needed a blog post!). Upon reading this post back, I clearly intended it to be the first in the series […]

Categories: Costumes, Creating, Me Made

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{Recreating Mrs. Maisel: Miami After Dark Dress Update}

September 25, 2020 by kelerr

A few weeks ago, I posted about how I was starting to work on my Marvelous Mrs. Maisel costume recreation. The dress in question was seen in the Miami After Dark episode, and it worn when Lenny Bruce takes Midge to the show and then they go dancing. I fell hard for this dress the second it hit the screen, and immediately had to think about how I was going to recreate it. The original idea had been to make […]

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

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{Tried & True Patterns: The Sew Over It Lizzie Skirt}

September 22, 2020 by kelerr

Until last week, I had only made one Sew Over It Lizzie Skirt, but I already knew it was a Tried and True Pattern. I was proved right when I made two over the span of a few days of work (total hours of sewing time at least, I didn’t see everyday). It’s such a great wardrobe staple, and really quick to make, even if you’re relatively new to sewing. In my continued effort to work on my unfinished projects […]

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Books 61-65, Mysteries 7-9, Super Special 10 & Reader’s Request}

September 18, 2020 by kelerr

We’re getting up there in the numbers of the BSC series, but we’re not even halfway there yet! So let’s jump right in today shall we? In book sixty-one, Jessi and the Awful Secret, we veer away from the major group of the BSC a lot and focus more on Jessi and her dance school friends. One of her classmates, Mary, begins acting strangely and becomes very concerned about her weight. Jessi realizes that she is likely anorexic, or at […]

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{Recommended Listening: Podcasts}

September 15, 2020 by kelerr

I like music, but I’ve never been super into just listening to it. I prefer listening to stories and voices, which is why I always have a tv show or movie on in the background rather than the radio. However, I have recently become very into Podcasts, particularly when I’m driving. As I drive upstate frequently, I have come to enjoy a number of different podcasts. Here’s a couple of Podcasts I really love, in no particular order (okay, the […]

Categories: Listening, TV Shows

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{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Books 55-60, Mysteries 5-6 & Super Special 9}

September 11, 2020 by kelerr

In this installment of my rereading of the BSC, I am adding a new little feature. I’m calling it “episode-a-bility” and I’m using it as a ranking scale to determine whether or not I think it would make a good episode for the Netflix show. Kind of wish I had done this the whole time, but – well, things evolve as I work on them and this is just one of those evolutions. The episode-ability scale is simple: a ten […]

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{Pattern Review: Jennifer Lauren Handmade Asteria Dress}

September 8, 2020 by kelerr

Once again we have reached a quarantine project that I started but never finished. I’ve got about two more to go before I complete all these things, which is my fall goal right now. A few months ago, Jennifer Lauren Handmade released their Asteria Dress pattern, and I immediately wanted to try it. I loved the silhouette and the little collar detail. The only trouble was deciding which view I wanted to make first! I ended up going with View […]

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{Pattern Review: By Hand London Kim Dress}

September 4, 2020 by kelerr

The By Hand London Kim Dress has been around for a while, but it was a “new to me” pattern. I had worked with the skirt portion a few times, adding it onto their Anna Bodice, but I had yet to make a full Kim without any modifications until recently. While quarantining, I bought some Mind the Maker fabric that I really loved. As per usual, I had no real ideas of what I wanted to do with it yet, […]

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{What I Read: August 2020}

September 1, 2020 by kelerr

In what would appear to be an effort to read as many regular books as Baby-sitters Club books this year (impossible), August was chockfull of new reads. Some were books I have been dabbling with for along time, in that I kept starting them and then reading something else… and some of those books are the something else (a.k.a. the new and interesting books I saw while I was still trying to finish other books)! Beartown, by Fredric Backman After […]

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Monthly Archives: September 2020

{Costume Design: Belle’s Village Dress from Beauty and the Beast}

{Recreating Mrs. Maisel: Miami After Dark Dress Update}

{Tried & True Patterns: The Sew Over It Lizzie Skirt}

{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Books 61-65, Mysteries 7-9, Super Special 10 & Reader’s Request}

{Recommended Listening: Podcasts}

{Rereading The Baby-Sitters Club: Books 55-60, Mysteries 5-6 & Super Special 9}

{Pattern Review: Jennifer Lauren Handmade Asteria Dress}

{Pattern Review: By Hand London Kim Dress}

{What I Read: August 2020}