I’ve been getting lots of fun goodies in the mail the last couple of weeks! I’ve used some of my gift cards from the Laurel Contest to order some amazing sewing stuff. Here’s what I picked out so far: I ordered these six beautiful patterns from Colette Patterns: Ceylon, Rooibos,[Read more]
I got the news this afternoon that I won two prizes in the Laurel Contest! My blue and white dress got First prize for the “Reader’s Choice” category and my coral dress won second prize for “Best Use of Color.” I had spent the morning obsessivily checking my RSS reader[Read more]
I had the best surprise this morning when I woke up and checked my Google Reader: the entries for Reader’s Choice in the Collette Patterns Laurel competition are up and my Blue and White Laurel dress is one of them! I’m so excited that my dress was chosen for voting[Read more]
Today I’m sharing the second Laurel dress I made for the Collete Patterns Laurel competition (you can check out my first dress here). This one is made with a thick coral pink cotton fabric that has a kind of a basket-like or crepe-like weave. I’m not sure exactly what you’d[Read more]
I’m so excited to finally share this project with you all. This is one of the two dresses I made for the Collete Patterns Laurel competition. I put a lot of work into the planning, sewing, and fitting of this dress and I’m really happy with how it turned[Read more]