As I mentioned earlier this week, I’m pregnant. Funny thing about pregnancy is that it lasts for so long. So theoretically, you could be totally prepared for your baby before its arrival. Theoretically. While I’ve always wanted to have children, in my mind they’d start at age 6 or so. I never thought seriously about […]
Welcome to BoPoMarch (Body Positive March) on Making the Flame! All month long I’ll be posting on Tuesdays and Saturdays, about topics that intersect with body positivity. My posts will be written from and about the female experience; partly because it’s Women’s History Month in the US and partly because womanhood is my experience and […]
Hey, it’s a Saturday Musings post! Grab a beverage … Okay, so I don’t like expansion packs for sewing patterns. Hence the title of this post. Note that I did not title this post ‘why I don’t like expansion packs’. You see, I don’t actually know why I don’t like them! So I thought I’d […]
Whew! After five whole weeks without sewing, I’m finally back in the saddle. And I tried out a new tank top pattern! Indiesew had a 20% coupon off tank tops, so I decided to buy one to test out my new printer (which I sold off my other electronics to afford). It’s wireless, y’all! And […]
I am vindicated! McCall’s just had a super Butterick/McCall’s sale, and I even had one of their 10% off coupons to make the deal sweeter….but I just couldn’t pull the trigger. I have lots of TNTs to hack, hundreds of patterns in my stash, and already bought the patterns I realllly want. Vogue released new […]
Here’s another Melinda! I planned and made several long-sleeved tops for work, in order to streamline my appearance at work during the cold months. However, since these are work tops, I didn’t want to put too much work into these garments. Enter, the Melinda Knit Tunic. Debuted last winter, Melinda needed only small tweaks in […]
It’s been a month since I returned from my trip out west, and therefore it’s been a month since I fiiiinally finished a very special project. I mentioned it briefly last month, and even sneak peeked the fabrics on Instagram, but my first mention of this project occurred before it was even a project, back […]