Hi everyone! Is it Spring already in your corner of the (northern) woods? I can't wait for Spring to show up for good. It has been raining a lot with some occasional sunny days now and then... It seems this year we are heading from Winter straight to Summer with no Spring in between... At the same time, I am enjoying all the beautiful Fall photos of the southern hemisphere. I love Spring but I also love Fall.
Today I am joining the One Thimble issue 11 blog tour with some... baby sewing! Baby #4 is on his way!!! (If you follow me on Instagram you have already heard the good news!)
It was a huge surprise since we were not expecting any more babies, but we are all very, very happy! The kids are really excited and I can't wait for them to meet their baby brother. <3 The best, most important and truly valuable thing we can give our kids are siblings. There are no material things, iPhones, iPads, high-end clothes, trips to the Disneyland or to foreign countries that can match the happiness and value of having brothers and sisters.
This picture was taken in 1957 at my grandfather's sewing machine store. He was a sewing machine dealer of Singer machines through several years. How fun is that? My mom was 3 years-old and she was wearing an handmade dress.
She has had an almost 100% handmade wardrobe as a child and even as a teenager. I love going through her photos and looking closer to all her outfits. These were the days where people would go to dressmakers in order to get their clothes made. My mom has always had an amazing wardrobe, full of lovely girl clothes and of stylish teenage dresses - the 60's style in all its glory!
She kept having some of her clothes handmade by dressmakers when she became an adult. Overall I think her wardrobe was 50-50 handmade / RTW when I was a child. But one thing was common: she had an impeccable sense of style!
Hi! Today I am joining the Miss Polly dress tour, a new pattern by Sewpony Vintage. I can't say enough good things about this pattern. I love it so much! Suzanne has such an eye for designing girls dresses. They are always original! And I love that they are modern patterns with a vintage style.
Hi, again! :) It seems like I keep breaking all the great rules of blogging. I post either too sparingly or, like today, I post twice on the same day. But hey, I have always been a rebel, haha.
This is the Eleena dress, one of my favorite dress patterns ever! This is the dress I made during the pattern testing and I am showing it today as part of the Eleena Dress Tour. I love the vintage look of this pattern! But I decided to make a modern edgier version of it. (I am a rebel, remember? hehe)
Hi everyone! Today I am joining the Bella Sunshine Designs Birthday Blog Tour day 3!
For this tour I was allowed to pick any of Bella Sunshine's patterns and I knew immediately what I was going to make: the Gabriella's coat! I was sad that I couldn't apply to test it and I was waiting for its release to make it for my girls. They are needing new coats and warm jackets, and this pattern looked perfect!
