While we’ve come up with many captions / creative commentary to attach to the photo below, we decided to give our blog readers the opportunity to “CAPTION THIS” (for posterity’s sake): And, as a disclaimer, please note: No humans were harmed in the making of this photograph.

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Hi all! We are over at Elegance and Elephants sharing in Heidi’s Knock It Off Series. And, yes, as we delved into sewing our “Knock Off” garment, we realized quickly we were indeed over our heads. If you want to know more, head over there and read on!

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So, we tried to squeeze in one final fall sewing garment before turning our attention to the quickly approaching Christmas season. While we loved the outcome, we are once again playing catch up with the upcoming garments…. Sound all too familiar? We made an Oliver + S, picnic blouse and and Oliver + S, sailboat […]

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Are you needing a little “Christmas cheer” or something to kick off your holiday sewing?? Today, we are guest posting over at Project Run and Play with a Christmas dress for our niece… Head over there to check out our tutorial on “Piping and Ombre and Tiers, Oh My!”

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This past week, we were given the opportunity to pattern test Shauna’s {Shwin and Shwin} latest pattern – the Lizzy Dress. Wow, oh wow, were we ever thankful we did….. As we sewed along, we couldn’t help but think of, and quote at times, Elizabeth Browning’s famous poem, How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count […]

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How many times have you purchased fabric and looked at it the next day, and wondered, “what exactly were you thinking when you purchased THAT?” Well, all I can figure is we thought it was “autumny,” and the word “gingerbread” crossed our lips a few times too. In predicaments such as these, we find ourselves wanting to […]

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So, have you heard about the upcoming “Knock It Off” series that Heidi, of Elegance and Elephants, is hosting for the entire month of November? Heidi inspired so many people {including us!} while competing in season 5 of Project Run and Play, and plans to continue to do so through her upcoming series…… How many times […]

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Ultimately, Sally was the reason we even agreed to make Halloween costumes, after adamantly saying, “Halloween costumes are a job that is too big for us”. So, while a moral of the story should come at the end….Ours is: “NEVER SAY NEVER!” Maybe it was Sally’s blonde hair. Maybe it was her curls on the ends. […]

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You are probably aware of the legend of The Great Pumpkin, a holiday figure (comparable to Santa Claus or the Easter Bunny). The summation: Every year, Linus sits in a pumpkin patch on Halloween night waiting for the Great Pumpkin to appear. Invariably, the Great Pumpkin fails to turn up, and a humiliated but undefeated […]

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For one day of the year, a Local Living History Farm opens its door gate to visitors – allowing them to get a glimpse of daily farm life from the 1930s and 1940s. The program theme is “Life and Living on a Working Family Farm.” The focus is that the barnyard and animals, the house […]

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Why, oh why, does “signature style” always give us fits?? This should be the easy one…the one to coast out of Project Run and Play’s Sew-Along Flickr Group. Still, it never is…but feel free to join us on our quest for our signature style. How does one define a signature style? Answer: Go with what you […]

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When determining the order for our KCWC week sewing challenge, we opted to save the one we were most looking forward to for the grand finale.  Last year, we had made EA a Christmas outfit by modifying the Bonnie Blue, Shelby Kate dress pattern.   It came together nicely, and we were pleased with the […]

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YAHOO! Sixty-six percent of our KCWC projects are now completed! One more to go, with two days to spare…. Now, as far as our other ’emergency sewing projects’ (ie: Halloween outfits and costumes) that need to be completed by next weekend – ummm, let’s just say we have our work cut out for us. Unfortunately, it isn’t technically ‘cut […]

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So, we haven’t had a stellar start to participating in our first KCWC!! Weeks like this remind us how slow we are with our sewing, and how lofty our goals are in comparison to our sewing reality…. We finally finished project #1 tonight: Cottage Mama’s Janey Jumper, size 2T. Please excuse the ensuing photos. Natural […]

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Project Run and Play, Season 5, Challenge 5: Fall Holiday Wear Our discussion on the Project Run and Play’s Fall Holiday Wear Challenge went through the following phases: 1. We’ll just skip this one. 2. Could we make something from our fall sewing list and count it as this challenge? 3. Surely we can think of something to do. 4. […]

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One very special little girl turns two today! Over the weekend, we were able to celebrate the joy she has given us over the past two years. It was a small gathering with all of her favorite people {ie: family} in attendance. That, in and of itself, was enough to put her on a “sugar […]

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Well. . .I don’t know about you, but we are gearing up to participate in our first ever Kids’ Clothes Week Challenge {kcwc} hosted by Meg of elsie marley! The premise of kcwc is to sew for at least an hour a day for an entire week, then post your creations in the flickr group […]

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What a week!! Thank you, thank you, thank you for the many kind words sent our way on our past few posts…we have thoroughly enjoyed becoming more and more inundated with the blogging community through communication with each and every one of you! We’re still pretty ecstatic after being selected the Project Run and Play’s White Sheet Challenge sew-along winner […]

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Project Run and Play, Season 5: White Sheet Challenge {Part II} We decided for the second part of the ‘white sheet challenge': why not see if we can make an HEIRLOOM DRESS from a WHITE SHEET?!?!? Heirloom sewing is a challenge in and of itself for us….so, we thought this would be a perfect way to stretch […]

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Project Run and Play, Season 5: White Sheet Challenge {Part I} Okay. We’ll say it. When the Project Run and Play, season 5 challenges were announced, “White Sheet Challenge” instantly became our favorite one!! There. We said it. Now, as Paul Harvey would say, is ‘the rest of the story….’, or at least “Part I” to THE saga… […]

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