My creativity has been hibernating over the last couple of months and when that happens my desire to sew drops drastically. Sometimes I get in my own head with perfectionist silliness that prevents me from starting a project without committing to oodles of toiles and fit diagnosis work and I end up not starting to…
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Amanda vs Ruffle Sleeve Top
Amanda’s life lesson of 2018: do not accidentally pre-wash your gorgeous new gingham seersucker fabric with your hot pink sports lycra because the colours will run. And then you will take the fabric out of the machine and everything is muddy pink and you cry because you saved up to buy the gingham and now…
Amanda vs Bondi Dress
Real talk: the last four weeks have been an absolute whirlwind as we finally got the keys to our new house. Yay! And in this time, I have repainted most of the house (hallway to go!), stained our giant deck twice, wrangled the veggie patch into submission, packed up most of the old house and…
Amanda vs Simplicity 1609
Real talk: The first quarter of 2017 has been a bit up and down for me. While my health has been on the fritz (boo!) I’ve scored an awesome new job (yay!) that is helping to even things out. And now that I have talked myself into an executive role I figure it’s time to…
