2015

Are you gearing up for the “February Free for All”?? Hopefully, you’ve developed a plan….and are ready to join us this month! It’s time to LINK UP your children’s clothing creations sewn using FREE patterns or tutorials! As long as the pattern used is FREE {and sewn within 2015}, it is eligible for linking up […]

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Inquiring minds want to know: What exactly is our “February FREE for All” that will kick start the Spring 2015 season of “Flip this Pattern?” When discussing which twists we would like to incorporate into “Flip this Pattern“, one of the first ideas that came to mind was to involve FREE patterns. But what season […]

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YEA, YEA, YEA!!! Who’s ready to get “Flip this Pattern: Spring 2015″ kicked off, and your sewing machines kicked on??? As mentioned previously,  “Flip this Pattern” Year Two will be similar…..yet different…. to Year One as we progress along! The first month of each “season” will have a twist, just to keep things interesting – […]

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On the first day of the new year, we posted a picture on instagram and facebook that {for us} created a good bit of discussion, as well as “likes.” Our oldest niece has expressed an interest in sewing for almost 2 years. In the past, all she has been taught to do is raise and […]

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What happens when you have a post ready to release, yet you lack a title for it? You release it anyway…. Title Schmitle! There were some “good” ones thrown out, but then they were just that – THROWN OUT! Such as…. Bimaa-licious! “Bimaa Up, Scotty” “Bimaa Valentine” I mean, seriously….how could one choose amongst such […]

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When things don’t exactly “pan out” as intended, it’s nice to have 3 nieces in the sizing line-up!! That said, CL wasn’t the INTENDED recipient for this Lunch Box Tee. Even with room to grow in the shoulders, it worked nonetheless. EA got one wearing of it in {skimpily lengthwise, we might add :)} before […]

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What happens when a niece decides she doesn’t like the jeans sewn for her?? Involve her in the coordination of a top to go with it, of course. And, since we KNEW she loved her sister’s Bimaa, we opted to sew EA her first Bimaa {size 4, with size 5 length }. *Note to selves: added […]

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What a year, what a year, what a mighty fine year!! We were going to forego the obligatory “RECAP” for the year, but upon seeing everyone else’s wonderful creations consolidated into one post…it was too much for us to sit on the sidelines. Call us lazy, but RECAP posts are laborious and “link intensive”….yet, as […]

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We truly don’t know where choosing a word for the year originated, but Melissa was the one who introduced the idea to us. Typically, we would have sat our OCD selves down and brainstormed; charting out various words we would like to be our focal point for 2015. Then, we would have made the words […]

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