by kelerr
Here it is: my final “What I Read” post for 2020 (granted it is 2021 when you’re reading about them)! I’m pretty proud of what I managed to accomplish this year, reading-wise. However, that was simply because I had more time, and not because I worked any harder at it than in previous years. I love to read, but it often falls by the wayside for other things I need to do so it really all depends on how busy […]
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by kelerr
Happy New Year! I think we can all agree that 2020 was a weird year. However, it was also a pretty productive year for me, in bits and pieces. I was able to have more sewing time, but with that I was able to procrastinate more. Even so, I had random surges of productivity both before and after quarantine started, and it’s time to round up the makes for the year! All the pattern names have links to their sites, […]
by kelerr
After a few weeks of losing a ton of steam on this reading, I am back! I am getting so close to the end, I don’t want to stop now! Changing it up a little bit to just include a little summary and my thoughts. I very much doubt the series will make it this far. We open this installment with Abby in Wonderland (#121). And… it was weird. Abby, Anna and their mother travel to the Hamptons for vacation […]
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by kelerr
Merry Christmas! Prior to the holidays, I had a productive week of polishing off a few makes. One of those names was the Simple Sew Skater Dress. Though I was familiar with the pattern company, this was my first foray into making one of their patterns. I had some fabric from Mind the Maker that I was eager to use, and it seemed a nice match! I was looking for a simple party dress vibe to show off the quirky […]
by kelerr
I cannot believe I haven’t made an Ava Skirt, being the Sew Over It fan that I am. It’s such a simple make, perfect for any sewing level and yet, until this week, I had not tackled one, and I have no idea why! I got the motivation to do the project from looking at my stash. The fabric I used was a gift from my grandmother last Christmas. She bought the fabric in Scotland on a trip she took […]
by kelerr
December has just been flying by, hasn’t it?! I can’t believe we are already nearly four months done with this school year and only two weeks away from the New Year! Even though I haven’t been very busy, I’ve somehow been busy. I realize that statement doesn’t make any sense, but I’ve had a ton of little things that I needed to take care of this month, and they have all kind of added up to equal less sewing time […]
by kelerr
For the first time in a pretty long while, I had nothing prepared for the blog today. I sat down to figure it out and realized that I don’t have any recent makes pictures to share, and I am in mid-read of the next installment of the BSC reread series (usually a good standby post when I’m at a loss for something else). So today I thought I would talk about something I’ve mentioned on my Instagram account a few […]
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by kelerr
I am slowly but surely coming to the end of this BSC reread journey. This installment sees the end of the Super Special, with the final one of the series outside of the Friends Forever books. This seems like a really big milestone in this journey, so without further ago let’s get to the books. In Abby and the Best Kid Ever (#116), we see the return of Lou McNally who has gone from Worst Kid Ever to Best Kid […]
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by kelerr
I’ve been surprisingly productive the last few weeks. Teaching from home cuts out my commute time (not that my commute was that long begin with, but it still makes a huge difference to my day) so when I finish up with my workday, I’m already home and ready to get started on my personal projects! And lately I’ve been shopping in my fabric stash and trying to use up what I have before buying anything new. This has resulted in […]
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