The Betty-Anna Dress

Hello again!  I'm back already!  It seems to always go like this - radio silence for weeks on end and then suddenly I'm popping back in all the time.  LOL!

I'm back here today because I've got another project up on the Minerva blog today!  This is a dress that combines two of my favourite dress patterns that I was able to bring to life when Minerva sent me the most gorgeous large scale John Kaldor cotton sateen last summer.  The fabric was silky smooth and gloriously lightweight and perfect to mash up a By Hand London Anna dress bodice with the swishiness of the Sew Over It Betty's skirt.  This dress is everything I love in a dress.  Fitted bodice, swingy full skirt and of course pockets!!!

I am absolutely dying to wear it, and hoping spring hurries the heck up here on the prairies so I can dig out my favourite red Lotta from Stockholm clogs and throw on my Betty Anna!

You can hop on over to the Minerva blog to read all the details about the dress and find links to the fabric.  They seem to be out of stock on the exact colour way I used, but they still have a gorgeous navy and aqua one available!

In the meantime I'm off now to the first of our Atom C the games for the playoff series.   Tom has woken up in "tank" mode this morning and is predicting a win (and another goal for himself) ...  Go Redwings! Let's hope he's right!

Another Sew Over It Heather Dress

Occasionally I find a pattern I really love and I make it over and over again.  The Sew Over It Heather is one of those patterns.  Well, I've only made three of them, but it seems I'm constantly thinking of the next one.  Make no mistake.  There will be a fourth in the future!

My first Heather was a warm, quilted long sleeve one back when the pattern had first come out.  My second one was a short sleeve one the following summer.  Which brings us to Heather Dress number three.  Which just so happens to be up on the Minerva Blog today.

Why is everything so green again you ask?  Well.  Let me tell you! There is often a lag in when we make our projects to when they get posted up on the blog, which leads to some pretty comical time travel-esque photos.  This dress has actually been in my wardrobe since last summer when I made it.   Right now there is no grass in sight, the temps are plummeting from a - 3C high yesterday to a nasty - 40C today.  It's definitely the cozy clothes time of year.

Suffice it to say this dress is all that I hoped it would be. It's so soft and snuggly, and like my other Heather dresses is like secret pyjamas, it's so comfy!  I wore it to work just yesterday as a matter of fact!  I hope you'll head over and read about it.  There's even a bit of a funny story about taking photos of it, but I'll let you hop on over to the Minerva Blog to read about that too.

Down, Set, Hut

Hey all! I'm back again with a super quick, drive by post before I dash out the door for the boys last regular season hockey game this afternoon.  I wanted to show you my latest project that is up on the Minerva blog today.

This one is actually a pretty old make all things considered.  I made it months ago when football season was in full swing!  It got loads of wear throughout the fall especially on those rainy and cold practice nights.  Oh my word!  It was such grim weather for football.  I've never seen so much mud.  Nor have I ever experienced anything like the hell that is soggy wet cleats that never dried out.  There is no worse smell than wet cleats it turns out.  So very gross.  It is the smell of nightmares.  Ewwww.

But enough of that - onto more pleasant topics and that topic, of course, is my cozy, snuggly Hey June Handmade Brunswick that is being featured today.  I had so much fun making this one!  It's a straight forward, easy sew and I loved the opportunity to personalize it for days at the field.  I'm sure it's going to get lots of use again this year when the season kicks off again!

You can hop over to the Minerva blog and read about my project and the fabric I used!  As for me, time's up!  I have to run.  The boys hit the ice in a little over an hour.

I'm Back!

Well.  It's certainly been a while.  I seem to have taken an inadvertent lengthy blogging hiatus.  I honestly meant to come back ages ago and post, but clearly it just didn't happen.  I've had a lot going on and I've been ridiculously tired so blogging was one of the things that unfortunately fell by the wayside.

I've done quite a bit of crafty things over my time away from the computer though and one of these days I'll sit down to tell you about them, because I had a lot of fun doing them and I'd love to share them with you.  I've also done some super secret test projects that I can't share just yet, but promise I will just as soon as I can down the road!

In the meantime, I'm here today to tell you about a project that I made way back in the fall for the Minerva blog that's finally gone live today so I get to show it off!

It's the Christine Haynes Ellsworth Coat made in a medium weight Lady McElroy Cotton Sateen!

It was quite an endeavour, but I'm really very proud of it.  I can't recall ever making a fully lined coat before and it's been on my sewing bucket list for the longest time! I won't spoil the details here, you can hop on over to read all about it over on the Minerva blog instead.

But before you head over, just take a closer look at that fabric... flowers and foliage and birds, oh my!!!  It's all of my favourite things!

The Sew Over It Sylvia

Well, there is a certain greatness to my lateness once again.  I've been feeling a little overwhelmed with everything going on these days, that I feel like I don't know if I'm coming or going most days.  Which is how I completely forgot that I had a post going live on the Minerva blog up until Wednesday and then managed to have it once again completely slip my mind in the crazy that was my day yesterday.

So here I am, a day late, to let you know about my newest post for Minerva.  It's the Sew Over it Sylvia Robe sewn in a crinkle satin print!

I actually sewed this one back in the beginning of July when the temps were soaring and the sun was shining.  Of course here we are now the end of September,  barely getting into the double digits and so many cloudy rainy days.  My Sylvia robe is likely going to migrate to the back of the closet now in favour of cozier cardigans and sweaters, but I still love it just as much as when I sewed it up and might pull it out for those days that I want a dressier look!

I hope you'll stop on by the Minerva blog and have a look!  And while you're there, you'll want to check out the other projects up there.  I'm always in awe of the beautiful creations on the blog and find it so inspirational.  (My to make list always grows exponentially after reading everyone else's posts!)