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Monday, June 25, 2018

Cropped Blackwood Jacket

Cropped orange wool jersey jacket made from the Helen's Closet Blackwood Cardigan pattern.

This is one of those instances where the garment told me what it wanted to be as I was going along.

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Thursday, June 14, 2018

Ginger Jeans 4.0

Black pull-on stretch jeans made from the Ginger Jeans sewing pattern by Closet Case Files.

Immediately after I sewed Ginger Jeans 3.0, I got to work on re-adjusting the pattern from scratch in preparation for Ginger Jeans 4.0.  To refresh, I had royally screwed up my pattern with some half-arsed pattern adjustments last time, resulting in some seriously twisted inseams.

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Tuesday, June 5, 2018

Ginger Jeans 3.0

Dark blue pull-on stretch jeans made from the Ginger Jeans sewing pattern by Closet Case Files.

I was hoping that this post would be a triumphant show-off of my new Ginger jeans, complete with diagrams showing my clever fitting modifications and their consequent improvements.

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Friday, June 1, 2018

May 2018

It was a busy month, in which I spent a lot of time testing a pattern, bought a good amount of fabric than I probably should have, and also completed two pairs of jeans and a cardigan that will be very useful in Bogota.

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