Cheap and Picky

I often find myself getting involved in projects that inevitably become a bit of an obsession....home repairs, sewing, roller derby....but one thing I never really cared for was gardening.  In o...

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Finally, I have a finished shirt.  In the previous post , I reviewed all the alterations that I did in order to get BurdaStyle 12.2011.107 to fit....and really could probably have just drawn my ...

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Let's get this party started, shall we?  I think I am going to split this project into two posts because the alterations are JUST THAT EXTENSIVE.  Really, I probably could have spent less time...

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I currently have about three different blog posts "cooking," all of them having to do with altering patterns. I finally made myself sit down and FINISH one of them I have been spending far to...

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And once again I have become the worst blogger in the entire world. I have to apologize, it isn't that I haven't been working on anything, but that I just have not been in the mood to photograp...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2013/04/back-againthis-time-with-hats.html

Today I decided that I just wanted to make something fast and easy...so I set aside the button-down shirt that I was working on and decided to make a pullover instead. Kwik Sew 3635 had been s...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2013/03/a-simple-shirt.html

Thank you, everyone, for the warm welcome back! Like I mentioned in the previous post, one of the reasons that I hadn't been sewing anything was because the room was such a disaster.  I had el...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2013/02/new-sewing-room-furniture.html

So it's been over half a year since I posted anything here, I am ashamed to say that the reason is that for most of that time, I had not done ANYTHING of interest in the sewing room. But, over ...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2013/02/renewed-adventuresincluding-my-first.html

I finally finished the Liberty shirt, made from the fabric that I was scared to death to cut into.  I finally sucked it up and cut it, and then of course let it sit for a while before I sewed it...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2012/06/finally-finished.html

Last week I made progress on some projects, but at the same time it felt very unproductive, hence the title of this blog.  I think it was because I was mainly working on tracing patterns, makin...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2012/05/running-in-place.html

Last week I finished a summer dress using a border print lawn that, pretty much like everything I have been sewing lately, has been moldering in my stash for a loooong time: I wanted to use...

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This week I finished up two projects that had been hanging out in my "to do" pile for a while, a shirt from the Hot Patterns Deco Vibe Neat and Sweet Blouse  pattern and also a pleated T-shirt ...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2012/04/two-new-work-shirts.html

After last week's progress made with pants, I took some time to make some plans for summer sewing and also to start to muslin a couple of patterns. This weekend I worked on a pattern from a new...

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Over the weekend I made a version of Burda 7447, a narrow-leg pant.  I desperately need pants, as everything I have is either too small or too large.  But, I have been very hesitant to sew pant...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2012/04/back-to-pants-fitting.html

The past few weeks I have been working frantically getting together a shirt that will be featured in a silent auction to benefit the roller derby team that I skate with.  In a fit of insanity, w...

http://cheapandpicky.blogspot.com/2012/03/why-do-i-get-myself-into-these-things.html

First things first...This week I have been working on a project completely unrelated to any of my planned sewing.  I have been working on an embroidered western shirt that will go into a fund-ra...

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Since I have slowly been getting back into sewing, I have been tentatively making plans for upcoming garments.  By this time last year, I would have had 40 different fabrics laid out, making pla...

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Today I finished a "first version" of the HP Superfanstastic Shirt.  I would call it a muslin, but it only needs some minor changes for the final version, so I'll call it a "first version."  Ha...

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Getting back in the sewing room has made me start thinking about what I would like to sew, rather than just finishing things that were already lying around the sewing room.  I go to Anthropologi...

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So the quest to complete UFOs continues... I tend to cut out a lot of patterns at a time, so that way I can sew any time I want to and not have to worry about cutting (which is probably my leas...

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Since this is my first blog post in MONTHS...I should probably explain what has kept me away for so long. As many of you know, I have struggled with hidradenitis suppurativa, and unfortunately on...

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Normally when I am purchasing fabric and planning projects, I make an attempt to locate something similar through snoop shopping some of my favorite RTW locations. One of the reasons that I do th...

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It seems that tunics are kind of my "thing" this summer. I have already completed two others, and this weekend I finished up a version of Simplicity 2365 , a tunic with shoulder princess seams an...

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This weekend I completed HotPatterns 1108 , the "Weekender Sunshine Summer in the City Shirt, Tunic and Dress." I made the shirt version. Here is the pattern art: And here is the description f...

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Yes! It is Me! Seriously, I am THE WORST. I have been a terrible blogger, and an even WORSE blog-friend. I haven't had any time to comment on any one's blogs; I'm reading...but no one knows that...

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