Pattern Testing: Striped Swallow Designs - Women's Desert Breeze

Hello from Sunny Washington! (Said no one ever.) Don't let these pictures fool you, I was freezing my butt off. I'm bringing you something fun and new today, another bohemian beauty design from Mandalynn of Striped Swallow Designs. She recently came out with a girl's version of the Desert Breeze and I snatched it...

Raglan Blog Tour Giveaway!

Wow. What a long journey of many, many, many raglans it has been! First I want to take a second to say thank you to a couple of people, Tibeca of Sewing by Ti was awesome and did lots of work to make sure that we had the designers providing us the patterns so we wouldn't go broke doing this project. Also, she never once...

Puperita / Max and Meena: Trendy Beanie and Maxaloones

Hi friends - something a little different today. I don't know if you know, but I have approximately 1,000,000 nieces and nephews and sometimes, just sometimes, when I'm not feeling lazy, I sew for them. :)  I thought I'd start sharing some of those. You may be interested, you may not. (sorry) but I always love...

Raglan Pattern Tour: CKC Heathers

Here it is girls! My final raglan review... maybe forever. I have enough raglans now, haha. :) That means next week is our comparison post and fabric raffle. Make sure you check out Ti's final blog post, too.  For my final piece, I sewed up the CKC Heather's Raglan. This shirt pattern has the option to to...

Pattern Testing: Itch To Stitch - Zamora Blouse

It's Monday! I've got some good news for you ladies on the 9-5. Itch to Stitch came out with a new collection today and all the pieces are perfect for work! You can see the entire collection here. I tested the Zamora Blouse and I'll share some thoughts with you below and a million pictures.  The Zamora Blouse...

Raglan Pattern Tour: Patterns for Pirates Slim Fit Raglan

We're in the home stretch folks! I have one more review after this one and in just a quick minute we're going to be giving away fabric! I hope you've enjoyed reading though Tibeca's posts and mine as well.  Today I'm reviewing the Patterns for Pirates Slim Fit Raglan. I really loved the look of the original Raglan...