KCWC day 5: swing coat

This post is all kinds of silly since KCWC was last week and this jacket is only about 90% complete with its unhemmed sleeves and missing tie.

But oh well. :)

Swing coat pattern from Heidi&Finn.  Sweatshirt fleece and pink gingham shirting fabric both from JoAnn's.

My bobbin and I are back on speaking terms after the weekend, so I'll finish up my last two sewing days this week.

See what else I made:

Day 4 here.
Day 3 here.
Day 2 here.
Day 1 here.

xoxo

Pin It

KCWC day 4: onesie t-shirt dress

I went to bed early so this is the sum of day 4's sewing.

This has got to be the easiest dress in the history of dresses.   I loved these dresses in the Mini Boden catalog, but they're so DIY-able.

So onesie + 1/4 yd. fabric = t-shirt dress.  A lot has changed since my last onesie refashion. :)

See my other KCWC sewing:

Day 3 here.
Day 2 here.
Day 1 here.

xoxo

Pin It

KCWC day 3: sweet little dress

I had to give the Leila & Ben sweet little dress another shot.  

I ditched the directions, used my serger, and finished in just over an hour.

I now love this pattern. :)

Fabric is a gauzy cotton from JoAnn's.

See my KCWC sewing from: day 1 and day 2.

xoxo

Pin It

KCWC day 2: diaper covers and pattern pieces

Again, I opted for quick and easy.

I used Dana's diaper cover pattern.

The white ones are made from a thrifted eyelet shower curtain.

The pink gingham ones are leftover from this dress.  Another free project = awesome.

I also got a jump on my ambitious project of this adorable little coat and traced the pattern pieces onto freezer paper for tomorrow.

See my day 1 KCWC sewing here.

xoxo

Pin It

KCWC day 1: shirred gingham dress

After a full weekend of birthday parties, an engagement party, and just staying up too late, this quickie smocked sundress was all I had in me today to sew for KCWC.

Super simple, super fast.  I love how it turned out.

And hopefully I'll find more motivation tomorrow. :)

xoxo

Pin It

DIY: Monogram button art

This is a project for the boys' room that I've been meaning to do for a while.

I always love a little more rainbow happy in the house.

So today I finally pulled out my glue gun and buttons and spent the 20 minutes it took to make it.

I traced a wooden letter  onto a piece of tag board as a template, but enlarging a letter from any simple word processing font would work as well.

See, even Woody likes it.  Yee haw!

xoxo

Pin It

What I Wore

Proof that I don't always wear yoga pants. :)

Sister's 9 month check up

gingham button down:  Land's End Canvas

jeans:  Citizens of Humanity...from before Little Brother was born...and they fit again!

flip flops: Havaianas

Sunday brunch

maxi dress:  Eight Sixty

jean jacket:  Gap, circa 2001 (do they ever change?)

flip flops:  Havaianas

Afternoon wedding

dress:  Jones New York  (I really wanted this very similar one, but I waited too long to order for it to arrive in time.  Boo.)

peeptoe wedges:  Target

Wedding reception

jacket:  Adrianna Papell

skirt:  Tadashi Shoji I'm so in love with this skirt. I felt so Project Runway in it. Ha!

Linking this with Lindsey.  

xoxo

Pin It

Are you in? KCWC

I've been adding to my stash of fabrics and patterns in anticipation of KCWC for weeks now.

Girl sewing!  Yay!

My wish to-do list:  

a few pairs of leggings

one or two more of these dresses

a few pairs of bloomers

this jacket for the fall

plus I'll make a few pairs of simple elastic waist pants and skirts, maybe a sundress, but no real pattern for those 

Are you participating?  What are you making??

xoxo

Pin It

S'meeps

Peeps + S'mores = S'meeps.  I'm clever, no?

I've been waiting to try these since I saw them floating around the blog world last Easter.  And now that we are armed with more leftover candy than I know what to do with, we made a few s'meeps and enjoyed the sticky mess in the backyard.

xoxo

Pin It

What I Wore

Spring break and not going anywhere has gotten the best of us...too many yoga pants to picture. ;)

taking the boys for Easter haircuts

stripey top:  Ralph Lauren

jeans:  Target

shoes:  Puma

way out of focus pic of me running way late for a pedicure appointment

You know you want to pin that!!

button down:  VonMaur

jeans:  Seven for all Mankind

flip flops:  Havaianas

Linking these with Lindsey.

xoxo

Pin It

Ten on Ten: April

I say it every time.  I can't believe that yet another month has flown by.

Here are April's 10 on 10.

xoxo

Pin It

Easter tradition

This may be a little late to share, but I always enjoying looking back at our egg coloring pictures.

If you'd like, see what we did last year and the year before.

xoxo

Pin It