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This is Butterick B5490, Suzy Chin pleat front dress, made up as a muslin. I was semi-careful with the bodice pleats, but the skirt pleats are pretty much randomly just basted in place at the seamline where the skirt attaches to the bodice. I cut a straight...

Last weekend, I made up a Frozen Anna winter travel dress outfit for my niece. Here are a few in-progress shots from Instagram...
I took the bodice shape & the cape from a Snow White costume, Simplicity 2817. It had the pointed bodice shape that Anna's travel dress has, and the cape's wrap around shape worked pretty nicely as well....

Caroline posted a while ago about sewing bloggers who post "work clothes" and how rare they can be. So this is my little addition to that genre, which started with a black elastic waist skirt. I know, you can see nothing in this photo other than that...

Other than a few Scout tops and tonic tees, there hasn't been much sewing here recently. I did, however, manage to sneak in a trip to G Street fabrics yesterday to use my amazon local voucher. Here's what I bought- the first is a really nice poly knit...