Making a Ruffle-Sleeved Dress: Part Two

Hello again! Today we’ll be taking a look at Making a Ruffle-Sleeved Dress: Part Two. Let’s get started! (And I’ll leave a link to the first part here.) Starting right off where I ended last week, here we are at the step of finishing up the open edges. I used this purple bias tape, since it was the only color…

Making a Ruffle-Sleeved Dress

Hello! Today on Simply Saturday we’ll be taking a look at making a ruffle-sleeved dress. Let’s get started! I decided to use another one of the vintage patterns (I made another outfit using a vintage pattern in this and this post). I made the third view of the dress, in a size two as shown. For fabric I actually used…

Making an 80’s Romper: Part Two

Hello again! Today on Simply Saturday, we’ll be taking a look at making an 80’s romper: part two. Let’s get started! Picking up where I left off last week, we’ll start with the elastic that I inserted into the back of the romper. It served the purpose of gathering up the excess fabric. Something that I’ve noticed in a lot…

Making an 80’s Romper

Hello! Today I’ll be sharing one of my most recent projects: making an 80’s romper. A kid-sized 80’s romper, more specifically. If you follow my Instagram, you probably saw the reel that I posted sharing about some patterns I recently acquired. Well, I finally got around to actually trying some of them out! I decided to make the third version…

Drafting my Own Pattern

Hello again! Today on Simply Saturday we’ll be taking a look at how I went about drafting my own pattern. Let’s get started! So with this project, I wanted to try and make a copy of another outfit; you know, a reproduction. As it happened, however, the outfit I’m trying to copy only exists in my imagination, since it’s from…

Curly Hairstyle Ideas

Hello again! Today on Simply Saturday I’ll be doing something a little different: my top 5 hairstyles that I’ve posted on the blog! Which will (hopefully) be some curly hairstyle ideas for you! And just as a side note: these hairstyles don’t have to be done with curly hair. That’s just what I’m used to! 🙂 This first one I…

Bear with a Bow

Hello again! Today on Simply Saturday we’ll be taking a look at an Amigurumi bear with a bow that I recently made. Let’s get started! This is actually the fourth interpretation I’ve made of this pattern. (I’ll link to those other versions here and here.) It’s proved very customizable! I made this bear for my youngest niece as a birthday…

My Sewing Process

Hello! Today we’ll be doing something a little different; taking a look at my sewing process when it comes to trying out new ideas. Let’s get started! Also, please excuse the two-second drawings. 😉 I drew these illustrations so that you could (hopefully) see what I have in mind. The first photo is what I imagined the front of the…

Making a Pocketed Denim Skirt: Part Two

Hello! Today on Simply Saturday we’ll be taking a look at making a pocketed denim skirt: part two. I’ll link to the first part here. Let’s get started! We left off last week directly after I installed the waistband. Next I added the invisible zipper. Oh, and I actually bought two packs of forty invisible zippers on Amazon; one in…

Making a Pocketed Denim Skirt

Hello! Today on Simply Saturday we’ll be taking a look at making a pocketed denim skirt. Let’s get started! You may recognize this as the pattern I used for this jumper, and this one, too. I pretty much followed it exactly; Except for with this project I avoided the confusing bodice pieces and used only the skirt part. After all,…